GREAT EXPECTATIONS

'you are to understand, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret...' Young Pip lives with his sister and her husband the blacksmith, with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefaction takes him fr om the Kent marshes to London. Pip is haunted by figures from his past - the escaped convict Magwitch, the time-withered Miss Havish am and her proud and beautiful ward, Estella - and in time uncovers not just the origins of his great expectations but the mystery o f his own...[Read more]