Is The Woman in The Wall based on a true story? Here's everything we know about the harrowing BBC drama starring Ruth Wilson.
When Lorna Brady (Ruth Wilson) finds a corpse in her house, she has no idea how it got there. As a teenager, Lorna had become pregnant and was forced to give birth hidden away in a convent. With her baby daughter immediately snatched away from her, the resulting trauma and bouts of sleepwalking mean she has no idea who the dead woman is, or if she could have killed her. Detective Colman Akande is soon trailing her, and hiding secrets of his own, becomes embroiled in Lorna's life as she searches for her daughter's fate. With protagonist Lorna being sent to one of Ireland's infamous and real Magdalene Laundries as a result of her teen pregnancy, viewers are wondering if The Woman in The Wall is a true story - here's what we know.
