Surname: Shaw
Age: 17
Occupation: Sixth Form
Background
Sarah is new to the area at the time of the film. Her life has been hard and she keeps herself to herself for the most part, trying to do better than how her parents lived. When she was younger she lived with her two parents in moss side Manchester and since she can remember the relationship was never a good one. They would constantly argue and fight, both were alcoholics and when they drank things became physical between them. It eventually reached the point where Sarah no longer found it safe to live with her parents and social workers stepped in to care for her when she was 8 years old.
She was placed in a care home and was adopted at the age of 10 by an older couple in their mid 50's and Sarah sees them as a grandparent figure. They are both kind and caring and showed her love that she had never been shown by her real parents who she cut all ties with. The elderly couple lived in Yorkshire a couple of hours drive from Manchester and it is here that she spent her teen years up until she was ready to do her A levels after getting straight A's and A* in her GCSEs.Instead of staying in Yorkshire with friends and a loving family, she chooses a Sixth form college in the suburbs of Manchester. Her reasons being to put to rest her bad memories by staying in a location with easy access to where she spent her troubled childhood. She believes this ill help her move on with her life as even though she was happy in Yorkshire, she always had her past following her like baggage.
At the school she meets Shaun and develops a connection with him as she begins to discover that he is going through a similar situation she went through and she feels that by helping him she will also help herself the way in which her adopted parents helped her.
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