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Indeed, Sarah would rather divert attention than cause a stir, as she has secrets of her own to guard, but her nature to put others before herself often lands her in unexpected situations. That's what is so great about Bevan Lee, is that he's able to put a tornado into a family without it being all daggers and curtains.' Like a whirlpool or a tornado!' she laughs. So in her wake, without her knowing it - which is another thing I love, she doesn't do it with any purpose, it's just who she is - it creates change. 'That's the thing that keeps George attracted to her, and Elizabeth repelled, because she is change. 'Sarah comes with very different morals, behaviours, expectations, and I think that's a really important turning point for the Bligh family,' Dusseldorp explains. Sarah is often an unwitting catalyst for that change in Inverness, challenging the ways of the community and in particular ruffling the feathers of Elizabeth Bligh, George's mother, the family matriarch.

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The series has been described as Downton Abbey meets popular 1980s mini-series The Thorn Birds and it certainly revels in the sumptuous style and romance of the 1950s that Douglas Sirk captured so well, while also capturing the spirit of rural Australia in a period of change.

She meets the wealthy Bligh family on the passage home and when things don't go well with her mother, she takes up an opportunity offered to her by the eligible bachelor George Bligh (played by Brett Climo), to come to the fictional farming town of Inverness and interview for a position at the local hospital, headed by Doctor Jack Duncan (played by Kiwi actor Craig Hall). Sarah is a graceful, steely and enigmatic nurse who spent World War II serving in Europe and is now returning home to Sydney to look after her estranged mother. But also a joy for life - she's not depressing.' You want to have depth and history and scar tissue, and this woman had all of that. You don't want to be someone's mother or someone's victim or someone's plaything. 'Being a 40-year-old woman, you want this sort of role. The more she found out about Sarah and her sto ry, the more she wanted to know.

'I was reading a couple of my audition scenes and I said to my husband, who's also an actor, 'You should read this, it's really good.' We've been watching a lot of HBO stuff and we both come from the theatre, so we're big on text and words, and I was just immediately struck by how bold, and true, and strong, and complicated and hidden the world was.' When seasoned Australian actress Marta Dusseldorp read the part of Sarah Adams in grand new Australian drama A Place To Call Home, she knew it was role she desperately wanted. Actress Marta Dusseldorp's theatre background made her feel right at home in Australia's answer to Downton Abbey, writes Lydia Jenkin

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