Writing for The Quietus, Adelle Stripe pitches up to revisits Mike Leigh's cult classic, chewing 72 times to realise that she might have more in common with Keith and Candice-Marie Pratt than she previously cared to admit.

Join tutors Adelle Stripe, Ali Millar and guest Anthony Shapland at Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre in North Wales in September for a week's course on Writing the Working-Class Experience.

Adelle Stripe's 2017 novel, Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile [“Dents Noires et Sourire Radieux”] inspired by the life and work of Andrea Dunbar will debut in France on September 4th 2026 with Les éditions du typhon, an independent publishing house based in Marseille.