Summary

Chapter 9

This chapter takes readers through to the end of the first season of Barbara (and Jim). There are break ups and attachments. Clive and Sophie are seen in public on a date. They enjoy each other's company enough to fake it for the people whispering about them in public. However, the romance continues out of the public eye.

Dennis invites the cast and creators over to a snobbish party held by his snobbish wife. They make Sophie feel provincial and uneducated. That night, Dennis reveals that he knows his wife is having an affair with one of the guests and kicks his wife out.

Sophie has created a place for herself in this world. She rents a place of her own, and makes it nothing like her dreary home back in Blackpool. Marjorie wants to cling to her coat tails, but Sophie...