OK Mumsnetters - what was that tv series ...stretch marks ..dead babies and coypus circa 1992?

[NotAnOtter]

Thats about how i remember it really.
Girl steals a baby - puts it by her bed and it dies ???????
They are in a big old country house
There is a 'coypu man'???
He knows she has had a baby cos of stretch marks...
Sounds odd but we loved it and want to try and find it ..please!

Did it have Douglas Hodge in it? (Don't know name of series, just rings a bell...)

Ooh I remember that! They called the house Erewhon. Starred Douglas somebody, aaargh this is going to drive me mad.
I always wished it could be repeated (but it probably wasn't that good...)

Here it is, A Fatal Inversion.
Gawd bless the internet.

was it Ruth Rendell - A Fatal Inversion?
here

it doesn't mention the Coypu man but I can vaguely remember the book, sounds similar....

bah beaten

mrs badcrumble HOW did you do that!!!!!
I was pg at the time and wanted to name my daughter after the woman in it ,....i had a boy!

Thankyou so so much we had wracked our brains for that!

What was the woman's name again?
(Nimble fingers btw)

the woman's name was Zosie

Aha! Quite hard to say, though.
There's a Polish (?) name, Zosia, pronounced Zosh-er or something like that.

Zosie!

never knew babara vine was ruth rendell!