Kirsten Lindstrom
Long serving housekeeper to the Argyll family at Sunny Point. She carries on her shoulders the trials and tribulations of the Argylls’ deeds and misdeeds.
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Morven Christie on Kirsten
Tell us a little bit about where we find Kirsten at the beginning of this story.
Kirsten makes herself invisible... she almost just wants to disappear
At the beginning of the story we see Kirsten on the night of Rachel’s murder, she has come running from the room screaming with blood on her and we’re left to figure out what the story is and how we got to that point. She has been working for the family for a long time, probably about 20 years, she’s the housekeeper, nanny, cook, everything.
There are so many layers to each character. Can you tell us a little bit about how your character develops as the story goes on?
She was brought in to the family very young at about 15 to help Rachel take care of Mary, this child she had adopted and had no idea what to do with. Kirsten came in from a foundling home so she was an orphan herself. In Kirsten there is a lot of guilt about how close she is to the children. Kirsten makes herself invisible, she dresses quite invisibly and has no vanity, she almost just wants to disappear. She has completely defeminised and desexualised herself. Lots about her behaviour throughout, the way she listens to conversations, the way she seems to be spying, all becomes clear late in the story when a secret comes out.
How is her relationship with the children?
With the children, because she’s so involved in their upbringing, she really struggles with it. It’s almost like Rachel adopted these children to spite Leo therefore it’s down to Kirsten to raise them in lots of ways, so she does get to have this mother role but without them ever being her children. The children rely on her.
