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Washington Post
09-07-2025
- General
- Washington Post
I want my kids to have the close sibling relationship that I never had
Dear Meghan: I come from a dysfunctional family where everyone is high achieving, but no one is close to one another. Growing up, emotional well-being and relationship building were not valued, only grades and achievements. Even now, what's important to my family are superficial things like jobs, titles, looking good in a holiday picture, etc.
Times
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Louise Brealey: ‘More Sherlock? I don't think Benedict Cumberbatch is averse'
I t is hard to think of a more dysfunctional television mother than Deb in Such Brave Girls, Kat Sadler's Bafta-winning sitcom, which returns this week for a second series. Sure, we can empathise with her plight as a single mother of two rather challenging daughters but if the character played by Louise Brealey were real, social services would probably have been called many years ago. The daughters in question are Josie, played by Sadler, and Billie, played by Sadler's real-life sister, Lizzie Davidson. Deb is flagrant in her favouritism towards Billie — whose loud-mouthed monomania clearly matches her own — and in series two actually kidnaps the clinically depressed older sister Josie as part of a weird plan to get her ghastly boyfriend to marry her and move her and her daughters into his big house.
