Oxblood

This story follows the lives of three women, mother, daughter and mother ln law, living in the leaden fallout following the deaths of their Krayish husbands and fathers. Jan, the troubled daughter who sleeps around for booze, tabs, lifts home and comfort, desperate to get away. Carol the mother, broken, living out her existence while caring for her daughter's baby and Nedra who burns on a catholic flame, happily burdened with the sins and shame her family has brought upon her.

Its grim, bleak and an extremely uncomfortable read in places. Almost a masterpiece but the prose is dense and difficult to follow at times and I had to go back and re-read passages for them to make sense. If Mike Leigh & Shane Meadow had a baby, it would probably look a lot like this.