A 16-year-old girl living in Wolverhampton finds comfort in placing portraits of her media idols covering her bedroom wall. She dreams of escaping her humdrum circumstances by becoming a writer, and manages to secure a trial as a music journalist. Eager to reinvent herself, she adopts a new style, bright red hair and an outlandish pen name. In due course she realises that cruel reviews offer a pathway to success allowing her to support her family financially. Drama based on Caitlin Moran's memoir, with Beanie Feldstein, Cleo and Donal Finn