Pyg

Pyg

Author: Pip Landers-Letts Listening Length: 8h 23m
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Alice French is an emotional wreck. She’s left her toxic lover. She’s probably going to lose her job. She’s even about to ruin her expensive heels when she stumbles upon a barely conscious stranger one night… All Alice wants to do is go home and lick her wounds, but she’s compelled to help. Who is this strange man...

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PIGTAILS AND LIPS

P ick of the Pops scratched out of the paint-splattered speaker of the transistor, and the three of us went about our usual business in the studio.

Mum called it her studio, but it was just a stone outbuilding which she’d transformed into a cosy home away from the place we couldn’t really call home. Knitted blankets and scattered cushions dressed the two sagging armchairs, and Mum’s colourful canvases brightened the dank walls. On colder days, she served us hot blackcurrant cordial and home-baked biscuits as we listened to the latest songs playing on the radio. The studio smelt mossy and damp, but also like sweet tobacco and oil paints, and we always felt safe tucked away in there because the dragon never left its own cave to enter ours.

The song spun from Gerry and the Pacemakers into the current number one.