| Three-part dramatization of the novel by Joanna Trollope. A clergyman's wife shocks the church establishment and infuriates her husband by taking a job in a supermarket. She attracts the passionate interest of three very different men: a newly-appointed archdeacon; his younger brother, a philosopher and academic; and a wealthy businessman new to the village. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Pam Ferris | Eleanor Ramsay | 4 |
| Mary Roscoe | Fergus's Wife | 4 |
| Stephen Dillane | Jonathan Byrne | 4 |
| Prunella Scales | Marjorie Richardson | 4 |
| Orla Brady | Sister Josephine | 4 |
| Ronald Pickup | Daniel Byrne | 4 |
| Miles Anderson | Patrick O'Sullivan | 4 |
| Lindsay Duncan | Anna Bouverie | 4 |
| Jonathan Coy | Peter Bouverie | 4 |