Time off

In this stand-alone four part series Katherine Kelly plays Sally, a former teacher freed from prison after apparently being wrongly convicted for the murder of one of her pupils. But after five years in jail, Sally finds life problematic back in her beloved home town of Keswick, in the Lake District. There’s the ex-husband who doesn’t want to see her, the school that refuses to re-employ her and the family of the murdered boy who still hold her responsible for their son’s death.

Shaun Dooley is Detective Braithwaite, himself nursing a private grief, who is tasked with re-investigating the killing, which proves to be no easy task as family jealousies and secrets emerge, leading to a conclusion that few would have seen coming. Kelly, whose previous roles include the feisty DI in and fellow Barnsley tyke Dooley are superb in a drama that is most definitely a cut