David Copperfield

Aug 30, 2025 1:37 AM

Author:Charles Dickens,Timothy Spall,Miriam Margolyes,Phil Daniels,Sheila Hancock,Full Cast

David Copperfield

David Copperfield is the story of a boy growing to maturity in the affairs of the world and of the heart, surrounded by some of Dickens' most memorable characters: David's eccentric great-aunt; Miss Betsey Trotwood; the ever-optimistic Mr Micawber; jolly Peggotty and her willing husband Barkis; the charming Steerforth; the ever so 'umble Uriah Heep and the foolishly innocent Dora. But will David finally find happiness with the faithful Agnes Wickfield, whom he has known since childhood? And is her own future secure, threatened as it is by Uriah Heep, her father's clerk? Starring Miriam Margolyes, Timothy Spall, Phil Danielsl and Sheila Hancock.

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We are so lucky to have Anna Quindlen in our literary lives. With her big heart and her amazing humanity she reminds us all of our blessings

—— Alice Hoffman

Qualities and shades of love are this writer's strong suit, and she has the unusual talent for writing about them with so much truth and heart that one is carried away on a tidal wave of involvement and concern.

—— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Intelligence, clarity and heartrending directness

—— Newsday

The honest of her storytelling is exemplary.

—— Sunday Telegraph

Quindlen writes with power and grace.

—— The Boston Globe

Relationships and family life are captured by Anna Quindlen in a beautiful, intelligent way.

—— Good Housekeeping

An intelligent, highly entertaining novel laced with acute perceptions about the nature of day-to-day family life

—— Anne Tyler , New York Times Book Review

Tender, taut, full of insight, yet with a darkness at its centre

—— Margaret Forster

Excellently done; the minutiae of domestic landscapes, the lunatic irrationality of family quarrels, the torments of sibling rivalry

—— Sunday Telegraph

Funny, heart-hammering, wise...superb entertainment

—— New York Times Book Review

A terrific writer... She's changed my perception on life

—— Anna Chancellor

A classic of contemporary Americana... variously funny and horrifying and finally, quietly, terribly moving

—— Los Angeles Times

A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read

—— Boston Globe

A novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well

—— Newsweek

In her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power

—— The New Yorker

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