Mother

Female | Unspecified | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 54

EXTRACT: ...leaving school, getting a job, backpacking in Europe, breaking hearts, having her heart broken. Landing a job, losing a job, finding an even better job - quitting on a whim, travelling on impulse, feeling truly free, walking down the aisle, setting up a home on a shoestring, buying furniture. Starting a family. The stretch marks, being the tooth fairy. I'm so very afraid she's not going to have any of that.

Mother

Female | Unspecified | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 12

EXTRACT: I screamed! So was every child in the tent. Everyone was yelling and screaming and jumping up and down. Except your Uncle Pete. He was just sitting there, like a statue, silent, with his arm held rigidly in the air. 'Me, me, me!' I shouted. And the ringmaster's huge whip reached out, out, towards me - 'Yes!, Me!' I yelled ... but it was the ringmaster's whip tapped Uncle Pete.

Girl

Female | Teen | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 62

EXTRACT: I'm so tired. I'm tired of waking up every day thinking 'How am I going to get through the day?' Of trying to fill in all the empty hours. I'm tired of hiding, of pretending, of lying. I'm tired of my mother smothering me. She's like the Cheshire cat - she smiles and smiles and smiles when the rest of her has faded, when it's way too late.