I Used to Be — Mary Brown

The story is one of terrible sadness but also hope. Mary Brown depicts the lives of two women who seem poles apart and yet are drawn together. She takes us inside their heads and their lives. It's an incredibly well-observed story of Kayleigh's teenage despair hidden behind a brash exterior; her adolescent highs and lows against which Maude's story gradually unfolds and we see the grief and worry she has held on to for so long that it has become a prison from which she sees no escape.