Carmel McBain: Only child of working class Irish Catholic parents in a dreary Lancasher mill town, Carmel's mother has ambitions for her to escape their penny-pinching existence, and rise through the social barriers through her education - first by gaining a scholarship to the nearby convent school, and then to University. Succuss however alienates from her own family, ties and class, and even herself.
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