Yet the battle to strip away the remaining threadbare support for her has already begun. She is so crushed that she’s barely still there. When we first meet Terri, a mother and heroin addict, we only see her through the eyes of her desperate child or scrutinising social worker.īut later her past full of poverty, neglect and abuse is revealed. The story develops by jumping between characters’ thoughts to explore their contradictions, weakness and strengths. This political battle is fought out over the casual vacancy. They are also desperate to slash funding for an addiction support clinic that the “junkies” and “scroungers” on the estate use.īarry was the most charismatic of the opposing faction, which fights to keep The Fields within the town boundary and to defend welfare services. So they hate the fact that working class children can share classrooms with their own. They feel entitled to run the town and keep it ‘untainted’. This is led by the Mollinson family-small business owners who see the sleepy town as a perfect model of society. One faction is angling to cut The Fields housing estate out of the town’s catchment area.
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