About the show

Set in fashionable 1850s New York, The Heiress is a great love story, with a twisting plot, dangerous emotions and subtle, complex characters.

At twenty-two, Catherine Sloper (Sinead Donovan) is neither clever nor beautiful, but to her delight she finds herself courted by the handsome and charming Morris Townsend (Wes Scully). Is it her good and gentle heart that he desires, or her inheritance?

For her widowed aunt, Lavinia (Anne Lucas), it is an opportunity to engineer a clandestine romance.

For Doctor Sloper (Tony McGettigan), keeping his daughter from her lover is a duty, a challenge and an entertainment...