Platform Seven

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We’re thrilled to be adapting Louise Doughty’s celebrated novel ‘Platform 7’ for television. The story weaves together themes of love and control in a truly original way. Part revenge story, part love story, part murder mystery this nail-biting drama forces us to consider whether we can truly know the people closest to us. With Paula Milne adapting and Sarah Walker directing, this is going to offer something truly unique.” Annie was having IV antibiotics and Darren noticed that she kept trying to pull the cannula out, so Darren found ways to distract her. He demonstrated this to Saima and Colin who were both able to keep closer observations of Annie. He also assessed Annie’s fluid intake and urinary output to ensure that she was not dehydrated, and asked Saima to monitor her pulse, temperature, respiratory rate and blood pressure.

As ghost-Lisa becomes preoccupied with the latest suicide on 'her' platform she somehow becomes able to remember her own past. The switch between ghost-story to a tale of an abusive-relationship is quite jarring. One of the least successful aspects of this book is that it tries, and doesn't really succeed, in combining two different genres and concepts together. I made the same mistake that women and girls throughout the ages and across continents have so often made, the one that is so easy, so seductive, so flattering to ourselves. I mistook possessiveness for love.

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Toby Regbo ( A Discovery of Witches), Yaamin Chowdhury ( The Lazardus Project), Phil Davis ( Trying) and Reece Ritchie ( The Outpost) will also star. Readers who liked Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson will enjoy The Perfect Wife, JP Delaney’s futuristic twist on the story of an amnesiac wife with a secretive husband. Abbie wakes with no memory of how she ended up in a hospital bed. Tim, her husband, is beside her, crying with joy; a Silicon Valley genius, he explains to her that she’s “artificial. Intelligent, conscious… but manmade” – a companion robot, or cobot, created five years after Abbie’s death.

There's no news on if the series will air in the US, but Fremantle will handle the international distribution of the drama. Platform 7 plot - what happens? Platform Seven is beautifully written I sank into the writing of it - and the premise was clever and involving. Told from the point of view of a ghost, haunting a train station, there is a mix of mystery and drama that was immediately engaging. Darren focused on person-centred care, knowing that each person reacts differently to being in hospital and has different personal concerns. He also knows that their understanding and responses to care is different and that he needs to provide cognitive, behavioural, and mental health care as well as the physical care required. He also needed to understand the cause of Annie’s confusion. understand the principles of effective leadership, management, group and organisational dynamics and culture and apply these to team working and decision-making It is told from a unique perspective and the writing is quite interesting but the book goes on a bit of tangent and ends up being like any other thriller. It was quite a drag to get to in the endI’m super excited to be taking the lead in this amazing psychological thriller, based on Louise Doughty’s phenomenal best-selling novel. I’m also thrilled that I get to show audiences a completely different side to what I can do on screen with this character.” Platform Seven seemed to contain two different books. A not entirely convincing supernatural ghost-story (where much is made of the coincidence of two suicides at the same platform) in which ghost-Lisa follows others around, making occasionally thought-provoking deliberations but frequently resorts cookie-like musing. The other narrative is an uncomfortably close look at how vicious and insidious an emotionally and psychologically abusive relationship can be. We see how Matty uses his job as a doctor to guilt-trip Lisa, how he deliberately works to erase her sense of self, her self-esteem, and her happiness. This is my first Louise Doughty and she weaves a most atmospheric read. If you have been in wait at a rail station or commute via rail, the writing transports you. The character is binding in her actions, of purgatory. The writing not only tells the story of Lisa, but of her confinement, and when you realize as you are following Lisa following Caleb, you feel her freedom. There are themes of regret and retribution; finality and closure. Time here plays an important part and she is vivid in her details. Since when did doughnuts come in so many flavours; lemon icing, raspberry icing, salted caramel icing? It isn’t just the doughnuts. I traverse the aisles. Ice cream sauce comes in creamy fudge flavour, Belgian chocolate flavour, raspberry coulis flavour and – my favourite – Alphonso mango, passion fruit and yuzu. What is a yuzu? Is an Alphonso mango significantly different from any other kind of mango […] then I go and confirm my suspicions about carrots: they are, of course, even more orange than I remember […] on my way out, I drift along the salad bar, glancing into the tubs of salad one by one, wondering why so many of them contain kidney beans.”