A Real Summer

A Real Summer

45 mins | Drama | Nov. 10, 2007

It is 1958, and the final debutante 'season'. Mary, a brilliant young writer and critic is befriended by Geraldine, a seemingly friendly young debutante of a similar age but a very different background. What starts as a friendship becomes something altogether more unsettling. This companion drama to Capturing Mary, charts Mary’s progress before she enters the dangerous world of Mr. Graham’s house and Greville White’s sphere of influence.

A Real Summer

45 mins | Drama | Nov. 10, 2007

A Real Summer
It is 1958, and the final debutante 'season'. Mary, a brilliant young writer and critic is befriended by Geraldine, a seemingly friendly young debutante of a similar age but a very different background. What starts as a friendship becomes something altogether more unsettling. This companion drama to Capturing Mary, charts Mary’s progress before she enters the dangerous world of Mr. Graham’s house and Greville White’s sphere of influence.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers BBC
Original title A Real Summer
Directors Stephen Poliakoff
Writers Stephen Poliakoff

Cast

Ruth Wilson

as Mary Gilbert / Geraldine