The Unknown Heart Collection (UK-import)
Collection of works based on the novels by Rosamunde Pilcher. In the two-part television drama 'The Other Wife', Rebecca Kendall (Natalia Worner) waves goodbye to her husband Robert (John Hannah) as he departs on one of his regular business trips to Canada but feels a twinge of uneasiness for the first time. What Rebecca does not know is that her devoted husband has been leading a double life for the last five years with another wife and child in Canada. When Robert's plane crashes en route back to England both of his families seek comfort in the fact that their finances were well protected. As Robert's brother Martin (Rupert Everett) reveals however, his late brother had invested all of his money into a Canadian goldmine and there is very little wealth left to distribute among the wives. In the television movie 'Unknown Heart' (2014) Elizabeth Lancaster (Carolina Vera), a terminally ill 40-year-old heiress to her family's cider farm, gets a phone call from the hospital with the news of the heart transplant she has been waiting for. After the operation Elizabeth is unable to connect to her family and instead finds herself drawn to a place she has never known: the home of the woman whose heart now beats in her chest. As she meets her donor's widow, Andrew Shaw (Gedeon Burkhard) she immediately feels an unexplainable connection and the tormented pair begin a passionate affair. Will their love be enough to keep them together or will more hearts be broken along the way? Finally, in the two-part television drama 'Valentine's Kiss' famous writer Valentine Whiteley (Katja Witzenböck) struggles to keep up appearances when a major life event changes everything. Valentine has made her living telling her readers how to be the perfect mother and wife, so is shocked when her husband Nicholas (Rupert Graves) demands a divorce. Suddenly revealing he has been unhappy for years and now wants to cut ties with their marriage, Valentine must power through and act like nothing has changed if she is able to meet her publisher's deadline for her upcoming book.