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The Sculptress (1993) is a crime novel by English writer Minette Walters. She won an Edgar and a Macavity Award for the book. The novel was adapted as a BBC -TV series in 1996, starring Pauline Quirke as Olive Martin.
A TV adaptation of Minette Walters' novel about a woman imprisoned for killing her family. An author doubts her guilt and tries to prove her innocence, but faces a web of lies and secrets.
- (392)
- 1997-11-13
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- 180
A journalist tries to prove the innocence of a fat woman convicted of killing her mother and sister. The woman claims to be a sculptress who carves on dead bodies and has a mysterious past.
Oct 27, 1993 · THE SCULPTRESS. by Minette Walters ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 27, 1993. bookshelf. shop now. Walters follows her dark debut, The Ice House (1992), with the even more striking tale of enormous, unloved Olive Martin, serving a life sentence after confessing to killing and dismembering her mother and sister.
Jan 1, 1993 · Minette Walters. 3.92. 11,385 ratings434 reviews. In prison, they call her the Sculptress for the strange figurines she carves - symbols of the day she hacked her mother and sister to pieces and reassembled them in a blood-drenched jigsaw.
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Synopsis. When author Rosalind Leigh is assigned to write a book about the life of Olive Martin, a woman sentenced to life in prison for killing her mother and sister, she develops a relationship with Olive and is soon convinced of her innocence.
Writer Rosalind Leigh is given a subject, the Sculptress, Olive Martin, a woman who butchered her Mother and Sister.
