Despite a nice performance from newcomer Jessica Brown Findlay, this Tamara Dreweish coming-of-age drama is not entirely convincing. Felicity Jones plays Beth, a studious teenager who lives by the sea in a guest house, run by her dad, Jonathan (Sebastian Koch, from The Lives of Others), a once-famous novelist, and her permanently exasperated mum (Julia Ormond). Their lives are turned upside down by sexy wild child Emelia (Findlay), an aspiring writer who sweet-talks Jonathan into giving her creative writing lessons; and inevitably she becomes far more than his pupil. It's an interesting premise; though despite being evidently autobiographical in origin, the fictional treatment has made it look sentimental and unreal. However, there's no doubt about Findlay's incipient star-power.