Life in Squares, BBC Two’s new drama about the Bloomsbury group, will begin later this month.

Written by BAFTA Award-winning Amanda Coe (Room At The Top), the three-part serial dramatises the exceptionally close, often fraught relationship of sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, and Vanessa’s enduring, sexually complicated alliance with gay artist Duncan Grant.

The first episode airs at 9pm on Monday 27 July on BBC Two.

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The cast includes Phoebe Fox as Vanessa Bell, Lydia Leonard as Virginia Woolf, James Norton (Happy Valley) as Duncan Grant, Sam Hoare as Clive Bell, Edmund Kingsley as Maynard Keynes, Ed Birch as Lytton Strachey and Rob Heaps as Thoby Stephens.

We meet the Stephen sisters in 1905, where a young Vanessa and Virginia are struggling to escape the confines of Victorian England and forge a new life for themselves. Their dream is to find freedom in creativity and live their lives without society’s rules or restrictions.

When their brother’s death rocks their world, Vanessa decides to change her views on marriage and settle down with Clive. Will this marriage prove too much for her unbreakable bond with Virginia? And how will free-spirited Vanessa respond to the challenges of family life and her husband’s infidelity?

Meanwhile, young gay artist Duncan Grant forms a friendship with Vanessa which proves to be one of the most influential of his life. With their love of art and each other uniting them, but kept apart by Duncan’s sexuality, can this companionship stand the test of Bohemian living?

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