Felicity

Felicity is a third-year drama student sharing a ramshackle attic flat in Didsbury with Fern and Dee, her girlfriend. Blunt and quick to anger, she is also part of the small household’s everyday companionship: its quarrels can end in tears, whisky, apologies, and hugs, and its residents make their own Christmas traditions together.

Identity and Living Situation

Felicity lives with Fern in the attic of a crumbling red-brick corner house. The two-bedroom flat is in poor condition, with no central heating, and Dee also stays there despite paying no rent. Fern suspects that Felicity hides Dee during the landlord’s surprise visits, tucking her away or pushing her beneath coats. The arrangement presents Felicity as protective of her girlfriend, though it also makes the household’s living situation precarious.

Felicity is described as a large, ginger woman with a furry chin. She and Fern are both at drama school, but Felicity is further along in her training, in her third year. The flat is not simply a place where they sleep: it is also the setting for their conflict, shared rituals, and the unconventional domestic life they build with Dee.

Conflict and Reconciliation with Fern

Felicity and Fern clash over Felicity and Dee touching Fern’s belongings. The confrontation escalates rapidly: Felicity calls Fern a selfish, spoilt psychobitch, and Fern retaliates with an insult about Felicity’s appearance and alleged theft. Dee becomes so distressed that she hyperventilates and breathes into a brown paper bag. The row ends not in a lasting break but in tears and whisky, followed by apologies and hugs. That reversal captures the friction of sharing cramped space while remaining bound to one another through daily life.

Family Rejection and Chosen Community

Felicity does not want to return to her parents for Christmas because they disapprove of her sexuality. Her father cannot say the word lesbian without choking on it, while her mother says Felicity’s lifestyle makes her sick to her stomach. Their rejection contrasts with the companionship Felicity has made with Dee and Fern, though the evidence does not suggest that this chosen household is free of tension.

When Fern decides to turn the kitchen yucca into a makeshift Christmas tree, Felicity and Dee join in. They decorate it with clip-on earrings, plastic popper beads, and shapes cut from the silver foil in cigarette packets. Fern’s radio, moved from her bedroom into the kitchen for everyone’s use, plays carols; the improvised celebration makes the ugly little kitchen feel festive and gives Fern a rare moment of excitement. Felicity’s participation helps make the shared flat a site of belonging amid family rejection.

Plans and Narrative Role

Felicity studies conversational Spanish at a local institute with Dee on Thursday nights. If acting does not work out, her Plan B is to leave for Spain and open a gay and lesbian bar; Dee adds that it would serve vegetarian snacks such as nuts, crisps, and perhaps olives. The plan is presented humorously and remains hypothetical, but it gives Felicity a future imagined beyond both drama school and her parents’ disapproval.

Felicity’s brief appearances connect the pressures of precarious student housing and family prejudice to the practical, improvised community of the flat. Her story is told through concrete shared moments: a fight over possessions, a makeshift tree, and an imagined bar in Spain. Together, these details show a character whose home life is disorderly and sometimes combative, but also capable of reconciliation and shared celebration.