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“She couldn’t reach out to her sisters, who were heroes to her, and who she knew, deep down, would have done everything for her,” Horgan says.

The first season of creator and star Sharon Horgan’s dark comedy “Bad Sisters” is about a family of women who hate their sister’s emotionally and physically violent husband almost as much as they want to save her from him.

“Something I was really drawn to write about is that, in the end, they didn’t save her,” Horgan says of the battered Grace, played by Anne-Marie Duff.

Bafta award-winning actor, writer, producer and director Sharon Horgan has told an audience at the Hay Festival she finally found confidence after the second series of her hit show Bad Sisters came out last year.

Horgan also talked about how she first turned to writing because she couldn't land any acting roles, hence deciding to write parts for herself.