Alison and Shirley: Feeling a Failure.
How two sisters responded to their cold unforgiving parents.Being brought up on a remote traditional hill farm, life was hard for Alison and her older sister Shirley. But when Alison failed her 11-plus,her mother did nothing to help her cope with feeling a total failure.This sense of inadequacy has cast a shadow over their lives, and their response to it has forged their personalities in different ways.
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