OK Mumsnetters - what was that tv series ...stretch marks ..dead babies and coypus circa 1992?

[NotAnOtter]

Thats about how i remember it really.
Girl steals a baby - puts it by her bed and it dies ???????
They are in a big old country house
There is a 'coypu man'???
He knows she has had a baby cos of stretch marks...
Sounds odd but we loved it and want to try and find it ..please!

[jamiesam]

Did it have Douglas Hodge in it? (Don't know name of series, just rings a bell...)

[MrsBadcrumble]

Ooh I remember that! They called the house Erewhon. Starred Douglas somebody, aaargh this is going to drive me mad.
I always wished it could be repeated (but it probably wasn't that good...)

[MrsBadcrumble]

Here it is, A Fatal Inversion.
Gawd bless the internet.

[MrsJohnCusack]

was it Ruth Rendell - A Fatal Inversion?
here

it doesn't mention the Coypu man but I can vaguely remember the book, sounds similar....

[MrsJohnCusack]

bah beaten

[NotAnOtter]

mrs badcrumble HOW did you do that!!!!!
I was pg at the time and wanted to name my daughter after the woman in it ,....i had a boy!

Thankyou so so much we had wracked our brains for that!

[MrsBadcrumble]

What was the woman's name again?
(Nimble fingers btw)

[MrsJohnCusack]

the woman's name was Zosie

[MrsBadcrumble]

Aha! Quite hard to say, though.
There's a Polish (?) name, Zosia, pronounced Zosh-er or something like that.

[NotAnOtter]

Zosie!

[NotAnOtter]

never knew babara vine was ruth rendell!