![]() ![]() On a rare trip into London, Susannah is horrified to hear of a mystifying occurrence in her home village of Midwich. ![]() Keely Hawes stars as psychologist Dr Susannah Zellaby, struggling to connect with her daughter, Cassie (Synnove Karlsen), who has a history of poor mental health and drug abuse. It’s a bold move to attempt to bring Wyndham’s story up to date, but this seven part series from Sky Max, created and written by David Farr, does a pretty good job of it. Cuckoos was first filmed in 1960 as Village of the Damned, only two years after the novel’s release. It’s not surprising that the movies soon got in on the action. And then I picked up a copy of The Midwich Cuckoos, which again had an inspired idea at its heart and was deliciously creepy. Wyndham’s ‘home counties disaster’ genre was unlike anything I’d ever read before. I started, like many others, with The Day of the Triffids and remember being blown away by the sheer inventiveness of it. ![]() I first encountered the novels of John Wyndham while still at school. ![]()
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