Background & Miscellaneous

After spending 9 years at St. Bernedette's Simone had felt locked into a pre-determined path. Stay at St. Bernedette's for 2 more years to do advanced studies before going on to Oxford or Cambridge to get a degree in any one of a number of subjects she had grown to hate.

Instead Simone decided along with her close friend Henry to move to the city at 16. Simone had won St. Bernadette's annual music prize, The Lady Laughlin Award. As well as her name inscribed on the shield she was awarded an instrument of her choice. With that acoustic guitar she planned to make her living. She has no ambition to be rich, to be famous, just to be able to make her living making music and escape the expectations of her parents.

Simone & Henry have rented a tiny bedsit with a fold out sofa bed not quite big enough for two, with a view of the back of another redbrick building, with a long walk to the nearest tube stop, with damp and ill fitting windows. None of it matters.