Firefly
A deaf girl living in a rural fishing village with her Dad and Grandad sees her life turned upside down when she is left with an increasingly abusive stepmother. A story of overcoming disability and adversity.
A deaf girl living in a rural fishing village with her Dad and Grandad sees her life turned upside down when she is left with an increasingly abusive stepmother. A story of overcoming disability and adversity.
Olivia Pickering
Little Frankie
Francesca de Courcy
Young Frankie
Libby Welsh
Adult Frankie
Nicholas Pople
Jake
Jim Main
Mick
Lara Lemon
Rebecca
Emily Bevan
Lily
Jim Page
Art Teacher
Anne-Marie Scragg
Helen
A deaf girl living in a rural fishing village with her Dad and Grandad sees her life turned upside down when she is left with an increasingly abusive stepmother. A story of overcoming disability and adversity.
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