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* SexySecretary - Elsie Flowers, a perfect pawn in Ruth’s game. She's attractive -- and married -- and yet [[AnythingThatMoves Bobbo]] ''[[AnythingThatMoves still]]'' [[AnythingThatMoves seduces her.]] She ends up falling in love with Bobbo, and after she tells him, he fires her, wrongly thinking that she’s a golddigger. Elsie ends up divorced and realises she wasn’t in love, but Ruth is kind enough to give her a second chance in New Zealand. [[spoiler:Of course, it turns out Ruth has a second motive.]]

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* SexySecretary - Elsie Flowers, a perfect pawn in Ruth’s game. She's attractive -- and married -- and yet [[AnythingThatMoves Bobbo]] ''[[AnythingThatMoves still]]'' [[AnythingThatMoves Bobbo ''still'' seduces her.]] her. She ends up falling in love with Bobbo, and after she tells him, he fires her, wrongly thinking that she’s a golddigger. Elsie ends up divorced and realises she wasn’t in love, but Ruth is kind enough to give her a second chance in New Zealand. [[spoiler:Of course, it turns out Ruth has a second motive.]]
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[[spoiler:Pearl leaves and finds her way like before, the children find themselves in life but Ruth doesn't help them she feels no emotion for them anymore]].

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** Then Ruth chats to a bank teller and a [[spoiler:former computer hacker]] to help with the [[spoiler:framing of Bobbo]].

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** Then Ruth chats to Olga a Vesta Rose employed bank teller and a [[spoiler:former computer hacker]] to help with the [[spoiler:framing of Bobbo]].Bobbo]]. Olga stops messages going to Bobbo's office that [[spoiler:money has been transferred to his 'new' account]] and the hacker [[spoiler:installs a program that transfers the money to the account]] just in time for the audit.
*** The Hacker didn't exist in the book, Ruth [[spoiler:takes the money out herself using Bobbo's computer]] and Olga [[spoiler:hides the messages]].



* TearsOfRemorse - Mary's Mother at her Funeral is joking about how she knew she'd outlive her daughter only to breakdown.

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* TearsOfRemorse - Mary's Mother [[spoiler:Mary's Mother]] at her Funeral is joking about how she knew she'd outlive her daughter [[spoiler:daughter]] only to breakdown.
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** In the novel Mary has Bobbo help with the book, as he feels the book needs ‘help’ but the publishers reject it and so Mary rewrites to the formula which causes Bobbo to leave for a few days as punishment to Mary.
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** There's the theme of number

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** There's the theme of numbernumbers, Ruth reads Mary Fishers' files and knows that she hides her wealth in foreign banks.



* ObnoxiousInLaws - Averted Bobbo's parents do like Ruth, they are horrified when Ruth reveals his affair and don't understand why he would behave so badly when they leave they shout "marriage isn't easy" to Bobbo who has spent his time insulting them and Ruth.

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* ObnoxiousInLaws - Averted Bobbo's parents do like Ruth, in the book it's revealed that they offered her to sleep in Bobbo's bedroom when he was at Uni, when he knocked her up they agreed to the marriage as Ruth showed herself as a good homemaker. They are horrified when Ruth reveals his affair and don't understand why he would behave so badly when they leave they shout "marriage isn't easy" to Bobbo who has spent his time insulting them and Ruth.



** It's worst in the book, he returned from becoming an accountant, is told to treat Ruth like a sister, he then slept with her to deal with a [[spoiler:incest fetish]] he had and after seeing how quick Ruth had their second he made Ruth have a coil. Then he regularly looks at his children with disappoint mainly because Nicole is like Ruth and Andy is girlish



* WartsAndAll - Ruth has several on her face but not for long.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse? - Nurse Hopkins disappears after Ruth tells her she has to leave, [[spoiler: she’s done it so that nobody can connect Vista Rose to the framing of Bobbo]]. Ruth’s children and Mary's Mother are sent to a house in the country as Mary is forced to sell the tower [[spoiler:they do appear at Mary's funeral]] but after that they vanish.

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* WartsAndAll - Ruth has several moles on her face but not for long.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse? - Nurse Hopkins disappears after Ruth tells her she has to leave, [[spoiler: she’s done it so that nobody can connect Vista Rose to the framing of Bobbo]]. Ruth’s children and Mary's Mother are sent to a house in the country as Mary is forced to sell the tower [[spoiler:they do appear at Mary's funeral]] but after that they vanish. Also Garcia disappears after Ruth sacks him, [[spoiler: he might be the man Ruth now as Mary makes love to in front of Bobbo but we can't be sure]].
** In the book Ruth speaks to Nurse Hopkins afterwards [[spoiler:to use the Vista Rose employees in Bobbo's jail to influence him to break contract with Mary]], also the fates of Pearl Fisher and the children are very different
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding - The Book ends with Bobbo still in Jail, [[spoiler:Mary Fisher]] dead from Cancer and Ruth [[spoiler: fully changed into Fisher’s image]] and preparing for Bobbo’s release where he will be under her control. In the Series [[spoiler:Mary]] dies in a more dramatic way, Bobbo is released as Ruth is [[spoiler: a clone of Fisher]] but she makes love in front of Bobbo, showing how she has won.

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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding - The Book ends with Bobbo still in Jail, [[spoiler:Bobbo almost a vegetative state due to electroshock therapy released]] , [[spoiler:Mary Fisher]] dead from Cancer and Ruth [[spoiler: fully changed into Fisher’s image]] and preparing for Bobbo’s release where he will be under her control. image now everything that Mary was in the High Tower]]. In the Series [[spoiler:Mary]] dies in a more dramatic way, Bobbo is released as Ruth is [[spoiler: a clone of Fisher]] but she makes love in front of Bobbo, showing how she has won.won.
* AdaptedOut - The things cut from the novel is only minor things but they do make a difference:
** Removed was Ruth's memories of before her married. She was learning to be a typist showing skill, but she lived in a hostel, her Stepfather was addicted to model trains and she had to leave, Bobbo took her out and his parents offered Bobbo's bed to Ruth while he was in Uni, when he returned he knocked her up and there was a shotgun wedding soon after their second child Bobbo told Ruth to have a coil.
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** Nurse Hopkins turns out to be at the mental hospital when Ruth arrives the Retirement Home, also her money has come from her parent's will after she developed problems due to the thyroid medicine they gave her.
** Other edits for the mini series includes a more complex Father Ferguson and [[spoiler: Pearl Fisher, Andy and Nicole's fate, Pearl manages to look after herself and the children are able to find villagers close to the High Tower that help them]].
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* DeathIsDramatic - [[spoiler:Mary]] is writing away, poor and alone when a sudden gale blows the papers and Mary to the open windows. Then she sees [[spoiler: Ruth’s eyes and shouts her name]] then [[spoiler:Mary]] falls backwards to her death on the cliffs. Her corpse is seen like a statue of the Virgin Mary.

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* DeathIsDramatic - [[spoiler:Mary]] [[spoiler:Mary is writing away, away]], poor and alone when a sudden gale blows the papers and Mary [[spoiler:Mary]] to the open windows. Then she sees [[spoiler: Ruth’s eyes and shouts her name]] then [[spoiler:Mary]] falls backwards to her death on the cliffs. Her corpse is seen like a statue of the Virgin Mary.



** Also there is all of [[Ruth's false names like Rita Rooney, Lily Latimer, Vista Rose and Polly Patch as well]] they are always said in full.

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** Also there is all of [[Ruth's [[spoiler:Ruth's false names like Rita Rooney, Lily Latimer, Vista Rose and Polly Patch as well]] they are always said in full.

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