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Into the mix comes Emma, Sylvie’s mum, who lives a mile and a half away (down the alley and across the park) but it might as well be next door for all her unannounced visits and unwanted advice for her daughter. Emma thinks of herself as young at heart and this manifests itself in her work (phone sex), leisure (risqué plays at the theatre) and complete indulgence of Tom and Otis.

Tom’s inward fight between man and boy is at the hub of proceedings. He is ‘discovering himself’ so his bedsheets spend a lot of time in the washing machine. He hovers on the brink of acceptance with a gang of thugs at school, who learnt to speak via American films and gangster rap. He knows a roving pack of girls through the now infamous incident when he broke the Derek/Otis/Off Licence trust by getting Otis to buy him cigarettes. And whenever he is pushed out by these groups he returns to reliable but geeky and embarrassing Richard Manners, the school wimp.

Otis is the talisman of the family, loving all and judging none. He is capable of extreme emotions but rarely expresses them in any conventional way. His silence is almost absolute, his creative talents for music and art burgeoning. Derek worries he will be gay. Otis is impervious to all threats but his obedience is unquestioned. Only Tom can manipulate him, as he knows Otis’ secret obsession about seventies comedy duo The Two Ronnies. Why is Otis ashamed? - Not even Tom knows.

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