Em: A day in the life of a Northern girl | 
The drinking of the rent money on a regular basis had forced a move on the Macklam family from a perfectly adequate three bed flat, located in the middle of town, to this particular property, situated in one of the old mining villages. However, despite the inconvenience of now living outside of Hartlepool, the move had provided Emily with a small degree of hope.
EM: Written in twenty four chapters, one for each hour of one single day in the life of Emily Macklam. We see it develop from struggling to raise her abrasive sickly mother from her bed, fighting off the unwelcome advances of an amorous boss, tackling a determined shoplifter, standing her ground against overzealous, hackneyed social workers and finding a hurried, slightly desperate physical love in the embers of a fiery night out with ‘the girls‘.
