Fingersmith (TV serial)

Fingersmith is a twopart BBC miniseries that was televised in 2005.

The lives of two young women collide in Victorian England when a trio of fingersmiths pickpockets concoct an elaborate scam to defraud a young heiress of her inheritance. The story alternates between the twisting back alleyways of Dickensian London and the cloistered gloom of a Gothic mansion in 1862.Since she was orphaned, Sue Trinder Sally Hawkins has been brought up amongst pickpockets and charlatans. She has been protected and cared for by Mrs Sucksby Imelda Staunton who believes Sue is too good a girl to get directly involved in such a world. But when Mrs Sucksbys old friend Richard Rivers Rupert Evans offers 20yearold Sue 3,000 to assist him in one of his scams, Mrs Sucksby cannot resist. ........

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