To Walk Invisible brings the contrasting personalities of Emily, Charlotte and Anne into focus, but also drags their brother centre stage, as Wainwright concentrates on the three years leading up to the alcoholic Branwell’s early death in 1848.
To Walk Invisible is co-produced, as well as written and directed, by Sally Wainwright, who was raised 10 miles across the moors from the Brontës’ home in Haworth.
Such bucolic moments are rare, however, and the overriding impression of Brontë country in To Walk Invisible is of mud, rain and roads covered in horse dung.
Indeed, To Walk Invisible is that rarity – a television drama with an overt feel for the surrounding nature, whether it be Emily and Anne taking long walks on the moors, or Emily and Branwell, sitting on a gate and gazing at the moon.