“We visited houses all over the country before we found Lambton Castle.

It had the beautiful front rooms we needed but it was in a terrible state.” It took a team of 36 construction workers four months to renovate part of the 19th-century, Grade II listed building, with more than a few setbacks.

In one dusty room we pass, an interior wall is crumbling and the floor has fallen through.

Amid the chaos, nobody pays much attention to the tall, sandy-haired man sipping organic carrot juice in the corner, his unmistakeable ice-blue eyes concealed behind a pair of Ray-bans.Elaine Cassidy seems comfortable in the role, displaying repressed emotion through a stony countenance, loosening only when laughing at Sue’s jokes, or dancing with her.The actress’s greatest achievement early on in the movie is to hint at the better scenes to come, when Maud will finally be able to begin to let go of her seemingly emotionless character.My fears diminished soon after the movie opened, however, and scenes of a poverty-stricken, disease-ridden Victorian London filled the screen, introducing the lavish set and costume design that would serve as the backdrop to the story.Like book review for a more thorough plot description).