Wicked Little Letters Review

“Scantily clad, jazzing flapper to whom a dance, a new hat or a man with a car is of more importance than the fate of nations” was The Times’ damning indictment of the women partaking in the suffragette and feminist movement that swept the UK in the 1920s as they protested their right to vote. A sentiment very much put to the sword by Thea Sharrock’s comedy mystery Wicked Little Letters. The film, which, in its own words, is “more true than you think,” would have the Victorian author of the retrospectively absurd The Ladies’ Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness in a state of despair. Set against the backdrop of the quaint English town of Littlehampton following the conclusion of World War I, Wicked Little Letters traverses the accurate tale of the poison-pen correspondences sent by an anonymous source.

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