

"His greatest story was the one he could never tell."
Overview
In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the price both must pay.

Amanda Hale
Fanny Ternan

Perdita Weeks
Maria Ternan

Tom Burke
George Wharton

Richard McCabe
Mark Lemon

David Collings
Governor

James Michael Rankin
Evening Man

Charlotte Hope
Prostitute

Michael Marcus
Charley Dickens