dickens said to his wife please go and give it to the woman for whom it is intended, nellie turnan. dickens said go and give it to her. in our film abby has written a fantastic scene where katherine dickens arrives in nellie's home. >> it's on her birthday too. happy birthday. and it's a great scene because in it katherine dickens through joannea's great performance talks about dickens, about how you may love him, he may love you but you will never really know whether it's you or his public he loves the most. i think that is one of the great things about abbey's script is that it really is dicken's relationship that is public and how it is important to feel that he is in a relationship with his readership or audience. >> i think, i think he, i i think he was capable of immense cruelity as well. it's almost as though when he met nellie at dickens had a nervous break down and it is as though he wanted to start again. it's like he wanted to reclaim his childhood, even falling in love with an 18-year-old suggests that this man is trying to reclaim his boy hood. and it meant that he just