I also wasn't taken with the mother-daughter relationship conveyed between Paddy and her strictly Irish mother, even as I appreciate it too was in the original writing. That said, viewers unfamiliar with the real-life Paddy Meehan story might scratch their heads over these references at all and to be truthful adds nothing to this dramatisation. family, rightly dispensing with the original book's insertion of the dichotomy between this Paddy Meehan and the famous miscarriage of justice victim of the same name from years ago (although the original Paddy Meehan was a male). The back stories centre on young, ambitious Catholic copy-girl Paddy Meehan trying to get on in the male-dominated newspaper world and her relationship to her strictly R.C. The story here of course recalls the awful Jamie Bulger case, although being set in the early 80's it actually predates that horrific crime, the association can't help but provoke a certain amount of discomfort (almost certainly evincing the prominent 'Any similarity.' legend over the end titles) but there is a good deal more to the narrative than this, with a related almost identical murder some 10 years previously and a good twist at the end as the true murderer is revealed. As a Glaswegian, myself, I always get a kick out of spotting known locations, especially as I'm an Eastender where much of the location work was done.

I read the Denise Mina source novel a couple of years ago and was pleased that this adaptation seemed to stay true to its good source.

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