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Martina Cole's best-seller comes to the screen in this crime thriller starring Alan Cumming, Ken Stott, and Keith Allen. Set in the East London criminal underworld of the 1960s and 70s, The Runaway follows childhood sweethearts Eamonn Docherty (Jack O'Connell) and Cathy Connor (Joanna Vanderham) as they are torn apart by circumstances beyond their control, but later find themselves reunited under entirely different circumstances.