I haven\'t read Joanna Briscoe\'s widely praised novel, on which last night\'s erotic thriller Sleep with Me was based, though I can\'t imagine how any fan of the work could be displeased: what we got was exceptional in its subtly, elegance and vitality. Andrew Davies – never one to shy away from an added sex scene here or wet shirt there – appeared to have exercised admirable restraint in his adaptation. There were, I think, only two sex scenes in the whole thing, though the tensions that ran throughout more than satisfied any appetite for the racy.
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