London Tide’s Bella Maclean on making her National debut, Sex Education and starring in Jilly Cooper’s Rivals

It’s something Maclean, who is looking elegant in a dark striped suit, has been thinking about a lot, and points to an essay Power sent the cast about how Dickens’ London is our London. “The housing crisis, food poverty, the postcode lottery of opportunity would have been familiar to him,” she reads from her iPad.