A charming dramatisation of children's author Beatrix Potter's private life, her restrictive up-bringing, her inability to find a lover until into her thirties, her solace in artwork that her parents saw as childish and her late blossoming within her relationship with the publisher, Norman Warne, a love that's well reflected in the chemistry betwen leads Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor. Both a love and a life story the film unpretentiously deals with her struggles with life, her success as an author; Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-duck, Jeremy Fisher, Benjamin Bunny, Tom Kitten et al, and her philanthropy. Sincere and disarming in a rather old-fashioned way.