Meridee

Female | 50s | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 35

EXTRACT: ..if he thinks I'm Judith I'll behave like Judith - I couldn't see you wiping up his mess. I got less and less tolerant of him in really mean, nasty, petty ways. I kept telling myself: this is the Judith factor. It was payback time for all the things he'd done to me... I got to a point where I loathed myself. I looked at him doddering and shitting and I thought: you're not going gently into that good night, you're not going to rage either; you're going to go shambling into the grave with me mopping up after you.

Hester

Female | 50s | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 48

EXTRACT: You heard the smash and you came out. I remember the look of concern on your face. I thought: it's going to be okay. Meridee understands bottom up from top down. I got out of the car and you said, 'Is everything all right - ?' I said, 'No, it's not all right'. And I told you how you could make it all right, how you could get me re-instated with my work properly acknowledged. And what did you say, Meridee?