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JENNY AGUTTER is refreshingly bereft of vanity. Chatting to me over Zoom, her face is bare of make-up, there's the odd steely glimmer of silver in her hair and she's wearing the sort of no-nonsense specs that suggest practicality over style. For the past 12 years, she has been a Sunday evening fixture in our sitting rooms as the resourceful and pragmatic nun Sister Julienne in Call The Midwife, and I'd imagined — free of her habit, wimple and sensible shoes — Jenny would yearn to put on the glitz and even let rip with the odd profanity. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THIS tender kiss from a mother to her child is invested with a weight of unendurable sadness. It is a parent's last embrace; the moment when Jennifer Lawson said a final goodbye to the cherished daughter she believed was dying. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]