“Blue Jean” is an Eighties-set drama that’s adorned with familiar references (at one point, New Order’s “Blue Monday” plays) – but isn’t mired in outlandish grime and misery. Most crucially, it’s a story about past injustice that doesn’t gorge itself on self-satisfaction. Nor the comforting myth that Britain is on a steady path of betterment….
Tag: homophobia
The Tell Tale by Clare Ashton ~ my review
This is an extraordinary work of historical fiction and thriller with more lesbian romances set in the 1970’s in a Welsh small town called Foel. The world seems to have stopped in Foel, patriarchy rules the small village, while strange things happen, that not even the lady of the manor can do a thing to…