I have seldom experienced the tension of a movie in the way I did when watching The Invisible Woman . It is based on a 1991 book about a love affair between Charles Dickens and a young 18 year old girl, Ellen Ternan. Nothing of their correspondence has survived so the book was a recreation of how it might have been based on the few facts that are actually known. The Age reviewer gives it a very reluctant three stars but more accurate is the 84% given to it by audiences at Rotten Tomatoes. Even the critics were at 76%. And if you know nothing about the real Charles Dickens, or Wilkie Collins for that matter, watching the film is an education in both personality and the morality of the time. Highly recommended.