Street savvy, repeat offender Shoo is a young woman with more front than Blackpool. Having spent her early life in uncaring care homes, the one thing she yearns for is a family.  Shoo is vulnerable and childlike in spite of her ballsy in-yer-face attitude.  She's been through the mill, ‘nobbing and robbing’ to make ends meet, but now, as part of Ellie’s gang, she finally feels she has the motivation to sort her life out.  In spite of all her best intentions, however, this is no easy task.  Streetwise she may be, but Einstein she ain’t.  More often than not she just opens her gob and says what she thinks, leaving the women to deal with the consequences - yet, somehow or other, they always end up forgiving her.   The baby of the group, Shoo has finally found her much longed for (albeit somewhat dysfunctional) family: motherly Ellie, bossy Aunt Hannah, protective sister Josie and even a grandma in Sadie.

But the resilience Shoo needed to survive her emotionally-deprived upbringing falters when it comes to men. Shoo not only has a penchant for bad blokes and losers, she also uses sex as a way to feel loved. Put the two together and you've got a dangerous mix.  However, when Dean McKenzie arrives on the scene, at last meets – and falls for – a boy who really likes her for herself.

Initially Shoo is the most gutted of the women when the Barbados plan falls through.  However, once she starts to get her head around being in this funny little place – she realises it’s become the home she never had.  

Read our interview with Christine Bottomley.

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