Lizzie is a football-mad teenager who, dressed in a Coventry FC shirt, begins confiding in us about her life. She was born in England to an Indian mother and a Scottish father, and is stranded between those identities.
Hannah Kumari’s monologue steers between the travails of adolescent life and school crushes to blended family angst and the difficult navigation of her protagonist’s identity in a place and time in which she feels isolated. It is the late 1990s in Rugby (there are references to the British National party as well as Tony Blair’s New Labour) and Lizzie hears racist taunts on the football terraces and from her peers. It all leaves her wishing to be thinner, prettier and whiter.
