Responsible Other

Melanie Spencer

• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781783190263
• eBook ISBN: 9781783195251
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: British Drama
• Index: Literature

Daisy is sixteen. She was normal. Now she's just an ill person with a disease no one has heard of. The hospital tells her father Peter that she must travel regularly to London for specialist treatment – but how on earth will he get time off work? There's one person he could ask for help. Problem is, Daisy's not going to like it… Responsible Other is a bittersweet comedy which examines the complexities of family life.

TWO

PETER and DAISY’s living room.

ALICE has let herself in. She is wearing school uniform. DAISY appears to be asleep.

ALICE:	Hi!
	I got a new keyring.
	It’s a polar bear.
DAISY:	You have a keyring addiction.
ALICE:	Why are you always asleep when I get here?
DAISY:	I’m not.
ALICE:	Some of us have been at school all day.
	Slaving away. At school. You know? School.
	Hiya.
DAISY:	Hi.
ALICE:	What did you dream about?
DAISY:	Nothing.
ALICE:	Mr Phillips?
DAISY:	No.
ALICE:	But you did, didn’t you?
DAISY:	No.
ALICE:	You had sex with Mr Phillips in your dream didn’t you?
DAISY:	No!
ALICE:	OMG. You literally did have sex with him in your dream though, didn’t you?
DAISY:	Don’t make me chunder, Alice. He’s rotten. And married.
	ALICE eats a biscuit.
ALICE:	I turn into a right diva when I’m hungry.
DAISY:	I thought your mum had you on a diet?
ALICE:	Are you saying I’m chunks?
DAISY:	No!
ALICE:	I am really fat though. No! I am! I know I am.
DAISY:	You’re not.
ALICE:	Trying not to eat breakfast.
DAISY:	Alice.
ALICE:	Only had a packet of Chipsticks for lunch.
DAISY:	They’re crisps.
ALICE:	Yeah but they are literally sticks of air. You can’t survive on them.
DAISY:	You’re not fat.
ALICE:	I’ve been starving all day, so it’s working.
DAISY:	You’re not fat!
ALICE:	Phase two is to hopefully catch bulimia before Normandy. But definitely before One Direction at the 02.
DAISY:	You can’t catch bulimia, you idiot!
	ALICE whips out a l...

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Dedication
• Characters
• One
• Two
• Three
• Four
• Five
• Six
• Seven
• Eight
• Nine
• Ten
• Eleven
• Twelve
• Thirteen
• Fourteen
• Fifteen
• Sixteen
• Seventeen
• Eighteen