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The Grace Girls

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The Grace's are an Irish family, living in a small village outside Glasgow, in the mid fifties, a time of great religious intolerance and of narrow minds which can see only one way..theirs! Heather and Kirsty are teenaged girls, both working in respectable jobs, who live with their parents, next door to their aunt, uncle and cousins, in a close, family relationship. Their Aunt Mona is an acid tongued, rigidly Catholic woman, who works as housekeeper to the local priest, and who acts as a moral guardian of everyone else's behaviour. When Heather breaks up with her boyfriend, who is shortly after killed in acar accident, moralising fingers point at her as a possible contributor to the boy's death. Kirsty is pursuing a promising career as a band singer when she meets and falls in love with a man who is ten years older than her. Her family can only think that this man is after her virtue and give her a very hard time, with her father threatening to finish her singing career. I well remember this period with its inflexible codes where, if you didn't conform to your family and friend's standard of behaviour, you were considered to be "strange", if not downright suspect.