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The Anxious Heart

(1992)
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As sunlight breaks into the first-floor flat at No. 13 Grimshaw Street, Julie Baxter. forever bright and irrepressible, gets ready for the mad merry-go-round of the day ahead. A single mum, she has plenty to keep her occupied and there are always the other tenants in the house to sort out.

Downstairs there's eccentric, ageing Nana, who spends her time dropping ash on her nightie and
losing bets on horses, while her spike-haired grandson, Billy, plays truant from school. Upstairs
lives weepy, overweight Yvonne, deserted by her husband, yet still hoping for his return. As if that isn't enough, there are the Social Services to do battle with and two admiring suitors to be kept at bay.

Julie is so busy solving everyone else's problems that she has no time to think about her own. Until she goes to work for handsome, suave Graham Iley and the prospect of a whole new world opens up before her ...


Genre: Romance

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