'You care a lot, that's nice. It shows your age.' Jay's new. He's just started as a temp in NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. He arrives with little more than a …
In The Wife of Cyncoed, Jayne is newly retired and disappointed with her life. She's in danger of becoming her daughter's babysitting service, and is desperate to make a change. …
Henry VIII's court is a stage for love and treachery, where the weapons of choice are sex, marriage – and the executioner's axe. As Henry's mistress, Mary Boleyn is a pawn in her …
'They say work harder, strive harder. The machine strives for nothing. The loom does the work twice as fast and half as well. And they'll settle for that. They'll settle for …
'The window for change – real change I mean – will close. It's already closing. Very soon it will be shut, and we shan't be able to get it open again.' 1948, Shropshire: the winter …
A wild party. A friendship. A cherished pet. And a night that changes everything. It's Julie's eighteenth birthday, and she's throwing a party in her father's extravagant …
'This house. It's called "Sea View". It's just I've looked out of every window, and you can't. You can't see the sea.' Blackpool, 1976. The driest summer in two hundred years. The …
Ash and Anya were happy, just the two of them. Then the baby came. Ash has spent the first two weeks of his son's life trying to work out where he fits. He watches his mother …
'I guess this is just that age. The Age of Shit Showing Up. The Age of Bad Choices Seeking Their Consequences.' Autumn 2022. A group of friends gathering hours before their …
'We're not going down without a fight.' Present day, it's the Women's Cricket World Cup: England vs India. There's a rain delay. Tensions mount, ambitions are laid bare and a whole …
