The four-part series, based on the bestselling novel by Michael Faber, is set in the 1870s and follows the story of a young prostitute known as Sugar as she attempts to escape her seedy and sordid existence and scale the social hierarchies of Victorian London.

Mark Gatiss stars in one of the major leading roles as Henry Rackham, the pious older brother of William Rackham who has committed himself fully to the church in attempt to curb the force of his physical attraction to the widowed Mrs Fox.