SARAH’S COLLEAGUES AT EDINBURGH
Julia Dempster, has boyfriend Gary.
Maureen Sinclair, married to husband Rab.
Norma MacLean, has boyfriend Sean.
Jean Robertson,
Margaret Hillman.
TOM BEVERIDGE
26 years old - Manager of shoe dept.
Worked for Hunter’s warehouse since leaving school.
Hopes for senior managerial position.
COLETTE HAWKINS
Sales assistant - shoe dept
20 year old - bubbly dyed blonde.
Never stops talking but never boring - nickname ‘chatterbox’.
Others:
JESSIE LAMONT - Lift Operator.
JOHNNY - Packing room boy in charge of the canteen radio.
JACLYN BRADLEY
18-year-old daughter of Rev. Jack & Mrs. Lynn Bradley.
Father regularly beats her (and her mother presumably).
She is not permitted to speak to strangers & has marks deep into her back.
Assaults her father intending to kill him but he is saved by his wife.
Mother tells Jaclyn she was adopted and forces Jaclyn to leave forever.
She wanders for 4 days and is befriended by a prostitute.
Elaine drugs her and allows clients to rape Jaclyn for about 6 weeks.
Jaclyn raids the caravan and runs to the train station.
Gets on first train in and arrives in Edinburgh - at flat opposite Brian.
Jaclyn looks at Brian (& Tracey) while they sleep (and make love).
Jaclyn smokes and drinks constantly - has a large amount of money - also has condoms, Vaseline, pills, deodorants in bag.
Brian assumes she is a prostitute not knowing that everything Jaclyn owns was stolen from Elaine.
Jaclyn is aware the police are looking for her and assumes it is to jail her for assaulting her father, robbing Elaine or to take her home.
Jaclyn has frequent nightmares of being beaten by her father.
Brian & Sarah help Jaclyn get a job as sales assistant in shoe dept of Hunter’s warehouse.
Jaclyn befriends Sarah & they attend Sarah’s church, which she enjoys.
Jaclyn writes to her father saying how well she is doing to annoy him.
Jaclyn’s father visits eventually and she surprises herself by forgiving him.
BRIAN’S FAMILY
MUM is 49 years old.
Mother to 6 children (including Brian) - former schoolteacher.
DAD is 50 years old.
Father to Brian - sales rep for lingerie company.
Does most of his work seated at dining room table.
LOUISE - Brian’s younger sister - later mother of Emily.
JOHN - Brian’s elder brother who used to work for Hunter’s warehouse.
PAUL - Brian’s little 12 year old brother.
AILEEN & MICHELLE - Brian’s other sisters.