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DIRECTOR Nicholas Hytner clearly knows his audience. And, at first glance, his choice of Alys, Always, adapted by Lucinda Coxon from Harriet Lane’s popular novel, seems set to please.
The story is simple. Frances, a busy but put-upon subeditor for Sunday newspaper The Questioner, is driving back to London one night after a miserably mundane Christmas with her miserably mundane parents, when she happens upon a car accident in a lonely country lane.
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