Set in the fictional town of Kilkinure in western Ireland, the BBC drama captures the story of an unmarried mother who was formerly detained in a Magdalene Laundry.
Sarah Lancashire as Happy Valley’s Sergeant Catherine Cawood.
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In choosing to centre her drama on a middle-aged woman Sally Wainwright drew the extraordinary from the ordinary. Two experts in her work explain the brilliance of the Happy Valley final.
From August 2014, the BBC’s four-year project followed the lives of ordinary people facing the stress of war on the home front.
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