Great Expectations

One cold Christmas Eve towards nightfall, young orphan Pip, brought up by a bullying older sister and her gentle husband, visits the grave of his dead family in the churchyard. He is 'growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry' when the desolation is abruptly broken by the terrifying Magwitch, a convict from the Hulks ... Full of tingling twists, vivid images, violence and sentimentality and spellbinding in its intensity, vivid portrayal of childhood fears and anxieties, Great Expectations echoes Dickens' own childhood memories as it explores a greater theme of knowing oneself.