Does that mean, then, that there is a glimmer of hope for those viewers who are already baying for a second season?

“I can’t pretend to be in the writers’ heads,” laughs Dunne. “I really don’t know what they might be thinking. If it wants to be its own standalone thing, it totally can be. But, as you say, we might want to see more and figure out more of the story. And also, do more people get called to justice? Are more loose ends tied up? Does Colman ever learn more about his own past? I don’t know, and I don’t know [if a second season is on the cards]; I won’t guess and I don’t know if I’m allowed to guess.”

While Dunne is reluctant to talk about the future of this series, and unable to talk about the TV projects she has lined up next, she does reveal that she’s creating her own content.

“I’m mostly writing these days,” she says. “One’s a dramatic idea. One is a comedy idea. One is a film that I’m writing good friends. I’ve a few things on the boil, but it takes forever to write something and it takes forever to them for them to come to fruition, if at all. So I’m just plugging away hoping that someday I get something. Yeah, because 99% of this business is rejection and you just have to keep flinging words at the wall until something sticks. So that’s what I’m doing.”

Finally, she allows that she “would like to think that, in some way, a fragment of [the real survivors’ stories] have been told in The Woman In The Wall, and that it might open the doors for more discussion so that more people get their voices heard. That maybe they can grasp a moment of peace from it.

“I don’t think it’s my place to dedicate the series to anyone,” adds Dunne. “But if there’s a positive to be drawn, I would hope it has spoken for somebody.”

The Woman In The Wall’s Philippa Dunne talks gaslighting, Sinéad O’Connor and that hopeful final episode