What It Feels Like for a Girl
To find yourself, sometimes you need to lose yourself. It's Y2K, and Byron's flirting with discovery and destruction, love and anarchy. Inspired by Paris Lees's raw, riotous memoir.
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It’s the dawn of the new millennium, and rebellious teenager Byron is determined to escape their small town at any cost. They find their lifeline in the most unlikely of places.
Byron roams Nottingham in search of Max. They find belonging among a group of hedonistic misfits, but bad boy Liam threatens to throw everything up in the air.
Byron is pulled into Liam’s dangerous and intoxicating web, offering Byron a chance to reclaim power for themselves and make serious money in the process. But can Liam be trusted?
Buzzing from the encounter with Liam, Byron goes out on the town with The Divas.
The walls close in on Byron, sparking a drug-fuelled psychosis as a way to outrun their demons. But their grip on reality fractures, leaving them with nowhere left to run.
With Byron’s sentencing looming, Lisa tries to make amends by taking Byron on holiday.
Byron faces the consequences of their actions, but struggles to navigate their new reality.
Byron’s dreams of escaping Hucknall are dealt a major blow after a devastating turn of events.
