This five part ITV drama is set in a house in rural England; three families live there in three different time periods; one in the sixties, one in the eighties and one in the present day. The family in the sixties are having difficulty coming to terms with the loss of eight year old Alice who drowned; in the eighties a girl has what her parents think is an imaginary friend, also called Alice and the present day couple find a mural behind the wall paper in the room that will house their new baby
they decide to name the child after the girl in the picture
Alice. As time passes it looks as if Alice is trying to communicate from beyond the grave although not everybody believes this leading to rising tensions in each of the families.
This series turned out to be a lot better than I expected; the ghost story was suitably chilling but the real highlight was the family drama seen in each time period and the acting was good through out. The different times were well handled; at first each switch in time was accompanied by clues but once the characters have been properly introduced these clues are dispensed with. As the story comes to its conclusion we learn just what happened to Alice all those years before; I was expecting a twist concerning her death but didn't predict what actually happened.
This series turned out to be a lot better than I expected; the ghost story was suitably chilling but the real highlight was the family drama seen in each time period and the acting was good through out. The different times were well handled; at first each switch in time was accompanied by clues but once the characters have been properly introduced these clues are dispensed with. As the story comes to its conclusion we learn just what happened to Alice all those years before; I was expecting a twist concerning her death but didn't predict what actually happened.