Enid (2009)

Recommended
UK
Television Film
Series Title: Women We Loved (2009)
Director: James Hawes
Writer: Lindsay Shapero
Cinematographer: Matt Gray
Composer: Nicholas Hooper
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Matthew Macfadyen, Denis Lawson, Claire Rushbrook, Joseph Millson, Ramona Marquez, Sinead Michael

Filmed as part of the BBC’s Women We Loved season, featuring an excellent performance from Helena Bonham Carter as the famed and prolific children’s author Enid Blyton, this lovingly crafted television film proves to be a thoroughly compelling and insightful work, as it paints a credible and painfully human portrait of a woman who was a wonderful artist but a terrible wife, mother, daughter, and sister. Iain.Stott