In one instance, it lights up the sky for a band of early 18th-century Caribbean pirates, including their Irish-accented captain, Elizabeth Bonny (Anna Friel).

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Another novel, Mad Cows, was also turned into a film - starring Anna Friel as Maddy, a sarcastic new mother who finds herself in Holloway prison after an arrest for shoplifting in Harrods and is forced to turn to her less than reliable boyfriend.

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