![]() ![]() This is the poverty trap writ large, the authentic working-class experience in all the mess and glory of the giro queue, drug and booze dependency, and gallows humour. Food is grey – frozen burgers, frozen chips, cans with white paper labelled only "stewed meat". ![]() Skin is "the colour of Spam" or "like wet candle wax". Fathers are absent, violent or passive ("Leanne, love, fix us a snakebite"). ![]() Homes are places to pass through: rare B&Bs that accept DHSS, but lock their doors between 10.30am and 5.30pm, leaving Janie and her Ma to pass the hours in shopping centres, playgrounds with one slide, or concrete high-rises. Born in Aberdeen in the early 1980s, her Ma having "been tae London and got herself preggers", Janie is initiated early into the ways of the fishwife – fighting, falling out, and moving on. T his is the story of Janie Ryan and her Ma, Iris. ![]()
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