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I still find Claire’s attitude as a teenager and an adult wanting. I can understand she fantasises about her idol Andy, the footballer from her favourite team, but what I can’t excuse is the way she treats her mother and is continuously putting her down. We know that something happened in the past that changed everything for her, and it has something to do with Andy. I thought that when she and Frankie decided to go and stand outside the club where Andy was celebrating his birthday, that would be the night when whatever it is happened. Yet, that summer went, and that autumn, Claire felt quite lonely as Frankie, who is some months older than she is, started college and had a new friend who she kept talking about. Claire felt she was losing her best friend, but that didn’t stop her from going to the club to see the players’ training even when she was alone. Andy’s kindness and easy conversation outside the club didn’t help to realise that her fantasies were not the real thing. I very much fear that she will take the young man’s cordiality as encouragement, and this might push her to do something.
In present time Claire returns from her visit to Frankie to find a different Mark. He has changed her hairdo, her clothes, and has even joined a climbing club. Claire wonders about these changes, and I am curious to know if her refusal to buy the house had something to do with it. Maybe he feels that Claire wants another kind of man, and he wants to show her that he can also be adventurous and different. Apart from that, Claire has decided to take the reins of her life and redirect her, and her first step has been to apply for a new position as a lawyer in Manchester. Mark thinks that she is good at what she is doing and her clients will miss her, but Claire is determined to fulfil the dreams she had when she was fifteen!!! Ridiculous!!! What you felt when you were fifteen is so different to what you want as a grown-up. Maybe Claire needs to learn a lesson.
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