8/10
Far From Sugar Coated...
23 February 2023
You share a dingy single room with y'selfish mam, all she does is lounge around, spends time with men, but after school you've met a fella, cooks on a ship with a propeller, it's not too long before he's sailing out again. A trip, to the seaside, creates divide, with mam's partner who's quite spiteful and quite snide, you end up living on your own, not the most salacious home, but a new friend Geoff, is someone to confide. Then you find that you've a bun inside your oven, from the cook who gave you more than just a stuffing, and then your mother reappears, that last fella had her sheared, musical chairs, merry-go-round, life can be crushing.

Great performances all round, in a tale of its time that reflects the poverty of the day in Salford, both financially and emotionally, but it could be any city wasteland almost anywhere in the world.
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