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Living in Battersea in the fifties and sixties, the Pratchett family have to contend with coalman Alfie Pratchett's obsessive jealousy. Alfie is a bully and his two teenage children, John and Millie, have learned to dodge him and his moods. Their main concern is to protect their mum, Eileen.

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