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* AdaptationNameChange: Orla's last name changes from Johnstone to [=McAlister=] in ''Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour''.
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* AdaptationNameChange: Orla's last name changes from Johnstone to [=McAlister=] in ''Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour''. In the film it's changed again to Johnson.
* [[spoiler:CheatedDeathDiedAnyway]]: More from the perspective of Orla's parents than Orla herself. Orla's mother suffered a horrific miscarriage in the sixties, then later went on to have Orla in 1980 or thereabouts, [[spoiler:only for Orla to die from cancer as a teenager.]]
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* IllGirl: At the start of the book, she's in remission from Hodgkin Lymphoma. In the film this is changed to acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
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* IllGirl: At the start of the book, she's in remission from Hodgkin Lymphoma.Lymphoma (referred to in-universe as Hodgkinson's Disease). In the film this is changed to acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
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* RaceLift: None of the main characters' ethnicities are specified in the novel. Much as the book talks about the details of the girls' outfits, there's never really a moment when we're given a clear expository overview of their appearances. That said, given the time and place in which the book is set (rural Scotland in the 1990s), and that the only time race gets mentioned in reference to the "Pakistani lads" who come in from out of town for the Saturday market, and it would be reasonable to assume that Alan Warner envisaged Kylah and the rest of the leads as white, possibly without even thinking consciously thinking about it. In the play and the film, both of the actors who play her are East Asian Scots.
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* RaceLift: None of the main characters' ethnicities are specified in the novel. Much as the book talks about the details of the girls' outfits, there's never really a moment when we're given a clear expository overview of their appearances. That said, given the time and place in which the book is set (rural Scotland in the 1990s), and that the only time race gets mentioned in reference to the "Pakistani lads" who come in from out of town for the Saturday market, and it would be reasonable to assume that Alan Warner envisaged Kylah and the rest of the leads as white, possibly without even thinking consciously thinking about it. In the play and the film, both of the actors who play her are East Asian Scots.
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* DisappearedDad: Chell has two. Her Daddy Patrick was LostAtSea while Chell was still in primary school. There's also Actual Daddy, her biological father, who she never knew.
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* DisappearedDad: Chell has two. Her There's Actual Daddy, her biological father, who she never knew and doesn't seem overly curious about. The man she thinka of as her father was her stepdad, Daddy Patrick Patrick, who was LostAtSea while Chell was still in primary school. There's also Actual Daddy, Years later, she's still haunted by her biological father, who she never knew.grief over his death.
* AdaptationalComicRelief: Is framed as more a class clown in the film than in the books or novel.
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* StrugglingSingleMother: Much as Manda plays up to the idea of being a martyred single mum in ''The Stars in the Bright Sky'', the rest of the girls know that it’s the rest of her family who do all the work of raising Sean.
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* AMFMCharacterization: Has very strong opinions about which bands are worth her time and is apparently able to bend the rest of the choir to her will when it comes to music selections on the coach down to Edinburgh.
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* UnwantedHarem: Kylah knows that Spimmy and the rest of the band all fancy her, but only because they see her as a [[TheMuse muse]], the same way they might think of Music/CourtneyLove or Hope Sandoval. She had sex with all of them to "get it over with", and ultimately decides to [[DumpThemAll leave the band]].
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* RaceLift: None of the main characters' ethnicities are specified in the novel. Much as the book talks about the details of the girls' outfits, there's never really a moment when we're given a clear expository overview of their appearances. That said, given the time and place in which the book is set (rural Scotland in the 1990s), and that the only time race gets mentioned in reference to the "Pakistani lads" who come in from out of town for the Saturday market, and it would be reasonable to assume that Alan Warner envisaged Kylah and the rest of the leads as white, possibly without even thinking consciously thinking about it. In the play and the film, both of the actors who play her are East Asian Scots.
* UnwantedHarem: In the book, Kylah knows that Spimmy and the rest of the band all fancy her, but only because they see her as a [[TheMuse muse]], the same way they might think of Music/CourtneyLove or Hope Sandoval. She had sex with all of them to "get it over with", and ultimately decides to [[DumpThemAll leave the band]].
* UnwantedHarem: In the book, Kylah knows that Spimmy and the rest of the band all fancy her, but only because they see her as a [[TheMuse muse]], the same way they might think of Music/CourtneyLove or Hope Sandoval. She had sex with all of them to "get it over with", and ultimately decides to [[DumpThemAll leave the band]].
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* BathOfPoverty: Money is tight enough in the Tassy household that Manda and her dad have to share the bathwater between the two of them [[labelnote:*]]though thankfully not at the same time[[/labelnote]].
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* BathOfPoverty: Money is tight enough in the Tassy household that Manda and her dad have to share the bathwater between the two of them [[labelnote:*]]though thankfully not at the same time[[/labelnote]]. Manda tries to make the experience a little more pleasant by filling the water with [[MundaneLuxury powdered milk]].
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* SourPrudes: Is [[spoiler:mistakenly]] believed to be this by the Sopranos at the start of the first novel.
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* JewishAmericanPrincess: She's not American, but comes from a wealthy family describes herself as "lapsed Jewish", in contrast to the rest of the main characters who've grown up in The Port and presumably have only ever encountered Protestants and other Catholics like themselves.
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* JewishAmericanPrincess: She's not American, but comes from a wealthy family describes herself as "lapsed Jewish", in contrast to the rest of the main characters who've grown up in The Port and where they presumably have only ever encountered Protestants and other Catholics like themselves.
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* EverythingLooksSexierIfFrench: Has a French father and is considered very glamorous and exotic by the rest of the group.
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* AdaptationNameChange: In the play, her band is called Thunderpup, the name it originally had in the book before Kylah joined and changed it to Lemonfinger.
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* BrilliantButLazy: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Kylah is a talented performer and songwriter but doesn’t harbour any great aspirations for her band. She just wants to get her dream job of working the record counter at Woolies. However, her lack of ambition isn’t framed as laziness. If anything, it seems like a goal that’s actually achievable given the general lack of attractive job opportunities in the Port.
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* BrilliantButLazy: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Kylah is a talented performer and songwriter but doesn’t harbour any great aspirations for her band.the band she's in. She just wants to get her dream job of working the record counter at Woolies. However, her lack of ambition isn’t framed as laziness. If anything, it seems like a goal that’s actually achievable given the general lack of attractive job opportunities in the Port.
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* UnwantedHarem: Kylah knows that Spimmy and the rest of the band all fancy her, but only because they see her as a [[TheMuse muse]], the same way they might think of Music/CourtneyLove or Hope Sandoval. She had sex with all of them to "get it over with", and ultimately decides to [[DumpThemAll leave the band]].
* UnwantedHarem: Kylah knows that Spimmy and the rest of the band all fancy her, but only because they see her as a [[TheMuse muse]], the same way they might think of Music/CourtneyLove or Hope Sandoval. She had sex with all of them to "get it over with", and ultimately decides to [[DumpThemAll leave the band]].
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* [[spoiler:KilledOffscreen: Dies during the TimeSkip between the first and second book.]]
* IllGirl: At the start of the book, she's in remission from Hodgkin Lymphoma. In the film this is changed to acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
* IllGirl: At the start of the book, she's in remission from Hodgkin Lymphoma. In the film this is changed to acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
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Manda’s big sister. Works as a hairdresser at [[PunnyName The Best Little Hairhouse in Town]].
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* TheGhost: She never appears on stage in the play.play.
* LevelUp: In ''The Stars in the Bright Sky'', we learn that she's gone from the assistant manager of the Hairhouse to the owner, running it under the name ''Hair Today, Hair Tomorrow''.
!!Ava Hurmalainen
Fionnula's flatmate who joins the girls for their holiday in ''The Stars in the Bright Sky''
* EverythingLooksSexierIfFrench: Has a French father and is considered very glamorous and exotic by the rest of the group.
* JewishAmericanPrincess: She's not American, but comes from a wealthy family describes herself as "lapsed Jewish", in contrast to the rest of the main characters who've grown up in The Port and presumably have only ever encountered Protestants and other Catholics like themselves.
* SecretlyWealthy: [[DoubleSubversion Double Subverted]]. Given the veritable class chasm between her and the rest of the leads, Ava doesn't bother to pretend that her parents aren't wealthy, but she tries to portray them as moderately wealthy NonIdleRich who just happen to own a [[BigFancyHouse listed]] house. [[spoiler: Fionnula later blows this wide open when she tells Kay that Ava's parents are aristocrats with a secret vault in France where they keep the paintings that they own and are too highly insured to be put on display.]]
* LevelUp: In ''The Stars in the Bright Sky'', we learn that she's gone from the assistant manager of the Hairhouse to the owner, running it under the name ''Hair Today, Hair Tomorrow''.
!!Ava Hurmalainen
Fionnula's flatmate who joins the girls for their holiday in ''The Stars in the Bright Sky''
* EverythingLooksSexierIfFrench: Has a French father and is considered very glamorous and exotic by the rest of the group.
* JewishAmericanPrincess: She's not American, but comes from a wealthy family describes herself as "lapsed Jewish", in contrast to the rest of the main characters who've grown up in The Port and presumably have only ever encountered Protestants and other Catholics like themselves.
* SecretlyWealthy: [[DoubleSubversion Double Subverted]]. Given the veritable class chasm between her and the rest of the leads, Ava doesn't bother to pretend that her parents aren't wealthy, but she tries to portray them as moderately wealthy NonIdleRich who just happen to own a [[BigFancyHouse listed]] house. [[spoiler: Fionnula later blows this wide open when she tells Kay that Ava's parents are aristocrats with a secret vault in France where they keep the paintings that they own and are too highly insured to be put on display.]]
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* MissingMum: Manda's mum is nowhere to be seen. No reason is ever given for why she left the family, although a brief recollection by Fionnula about in incident in hers and Manda's childhood seems to imply that she was present at some point when Manda was about three or four years old.
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* MissingMum: Manda's mum is nowhere to be seen. No reason is ever given for why she left the family, although a brief recollection by Fionnula about in incident in hers and Manda's childhood seems to imply that she was present at some point when Manda was about three or four years old.
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* [[spoiler:NoPreggerSex: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] - she has sex with Fionnula.]]
* [[spoiler:NoPreggerSex: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] - she has sex with Fionnula.]]
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* ParentalFashionVeto: She hides some of her more daring clothes in a local bush in order to avoid being given on of these by her mum.
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* ChildhoodFriend: As mentioned above, she's been friends with Fionnula since the two of them were very young toddlers.
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* SpoiledSweet: Offers to pay for Michelle to get into The Mantrap when she complains about being to skint to go out with the rest of the girls, only to get called out by Fionnula for committing a major faux pas by doing so.
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!!Sister Fagan "The Pagan"
Sister Condron's sidekick, who appears the start of the book. Seems to be more preoccupied with her plants and the school parrot, Lord Bolivia, than anything else.
* AdaptedOut: Doesn't appear in the play.
!!Father Ardlui
The school’s parish priest.
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Sister Condron's sidekick, who appears the start of the book. Seems to be more preoccupied with her plants and the school parrot, Lord Bolivia, than anything else.
* AdaptedOut: Doesn't appear in the play.
!!Father Ardlui
The school’s parish priest.
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* AdaptationNameChange: Orla's last name changes from Johnstone to [=McAlister=] in ''Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour''.
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* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Orla and the girls speak about her cancer quite frankly. [[spoiler:That is, until Orla realises that it's back. After that, she only refers to it as "[her] sickness".]]
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* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Orla and the girls speak about her cancer quite frankly. [[spoiler:That is, until Orla realises that it's back. After that, she only refers to it as "[her] sickness".]]
* BathOfPoverty: Money is tight enough in the Tassy household that Manda and her dad have to share the bathwater between the two of them [[labelnote:*]]though thankfully not at the same time[[/labelnote]].
* BareYourMidriff: In the play, her non-uniform outfit includes a midriff-baring crop-top.
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* HumbleGoal: According to Fionnula, Manda's main aspiration in life is to get pregnant as soon as she leaves school, preferably by a guy with a decent job like a mechanic or a forestry worker.
* MissingMum: Manda's mum is nowhere to be seen. No reason is ever given for why she left the family, although a brief recollection by Fionnula about in incident in hers and Manda's childhood seems to imply that she was present at some point when Manda was about three or four years old.
* MissingMum: Manda's mum is nowhere to be seen. No reason is ever given for why she left the family, although a brief recollection by Fionnula about in incident in hers and Manda's childhood seems to imply that she was present at some point when Manda was about three or four years old.
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* TheFriendThatNobodyLikes: TheFriendNobodyLikes: Seems to be on the verge of becoming this in the book. In an EstablishingCharacterMoment, she fails to offer the rest of the choir any cigarettes from the pack of twenty that her sister brought her back from her holidays, despite always bumming them off the others when the opportunity arises.
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* TheFriendThatNobodyLikes: Seems to be on the verge of becoming this in the book. In an EstablishingCharacterMoment, she fails to offer the rest of the choir any cigarettes from the pack of twenty that her sister brought her back from her holidays, despite always bumming them off the others when the opportunity arises.
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* SpoiledSweet: Offers to pay for Michelle to get into The Mantrap when she complains about being to skint to go out with the rest of the girls, only to get called out by Fionnula for committing a major faux pas by doing so.
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* AdultsAreUseless: For all her bluster, she can’t even manage to get the choir to the competition and back without anyone getting arrested or hospitalised.
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!!Catriona Tassy
Manda’s big sister. Works as a hairdresser at [[PunnyName The Best Little Hairhouse in Town]].
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!!Catriona Tassy
Manda’s big sister. Works as a hairdresser at [[PunnyName The Best Little Hairhouse in Town]].
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!!Sister “Condom” Condron
-> '''Portrayed by:''' Karen Fishwick (‘’Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour’’), Kate Dickie (‘’Our Ladies’’)
One of the sisters who teaches at the school and runs the school choir.
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!!Sister “Condom” Condron
-> '''Portrayed by:''' Karen Fishwick (‘’Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour’’), Kate Dickie (‘’Our Ladies’’)
One of the sisters who teaches at the school and runs the school choir.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: In the film, her name is spelled "Finnoula.""
!!Kylah [=McManus=]
-> '''Portrayed by:''' Frances Mayli [=McCann=] (‘’Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour’’), Marli Siu (‘’Our Ladies’’)
* AMFMCharacterization: Has very strong opinions about which bands are worth her time and is apparently able to bend the rest of the choir to her will when it comes to music selections on the coach down to Edinburgh.
* BrilliantButLazy: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Kylah is a talented performer and songwriter but doesn’t harbour any great aspirations for her band. She just wants to get her dream job of working the record counter at Woolies. However, her lack of ambition isn’t framed as laziness. If anything, it seems like a goal that’s actually achievable given the general lack of attractive job opportunities in the Port.
!!Rachel “Chell” [=MacDougal=]
-> '''Portrayed by:''' Caroline Deyga (‘’Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour’’), Rona Morrison (‘’Our Ladies’’)
* DisappearedDad: Chell has two. Her Daddy Patrick was LostAtSea while Chell was still in primary school. There's also Actual Daddy, her biological father, who she never knew.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Loves looking after animals.
* ParentalFashionVeto: She hides some of her more daring clothes in a local bush in order to avoid being given on of these by her mum.
!!Orla Johnstone
-> '''Portrayed by:''' Melissa Allan (‘’Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour’’), Tallulah Grieve (‘’Our Ladies’’)
* IllGirl: At the start of the book, she's in remission from Hodgkin Lymphoma
* LittlestCancerPatient: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] hard. Orla is just as eager to drink and screw around as the other girls.
* SuddenMorbidMonologue: A flashback in the novel to when she was in hospital for chemo appears as a monologue in a shoe shop in the play.
!!(A)Manda Tassy
-> '''Portrayed by:''' Kirsty [=MacLaren=] (‘’Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour’’), Sally Messham (‘’Our Ladies’’)
!!Kay Clarke
-> '''Portrayed by:''' Karen Fishwick (‘’Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour’’), Eve Austin (‘’Our Ladies’’)
* BigFancyHouse: Lives in a detached house on Pulpit Hill, an affluent area of the Port.
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Kay’s father is a doctor who is also [[spoiler:a religiously-motivated anti-abortion advocate.]] Kay’s main goal on the trip to Edinburgh is to [[spoiler:terminate her pregnancy without him finding out about it.]]
!!Michelle [=MacGregor=]
-> '''Portrayed by:''' Karen Fishwick (‘’Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour’’)
A former pupil who has dropped out due to her TeenPregnancy.
!!Other Choir Members:
The other pupils in the school choir are [[DramatisPersonae listed]] early on in the book, but are only mentioned [[RecurringExtra in passing thereafter]]:
* Yolanda McCormack
* Assumpta
* Aisling
* Iona
* Shuna - In the play, she’s given the [[NamedByTheAdaptation surname]] [=MacLaughlin=] and made into a CompositeCharacter with Michelle [=MacGregor=].
* “Ordinary” Fionnula Morton
* English Katie
* Ana-Bessie Baberton - Another fee-paying pupil like Kay. Her dad works as a solicitor. Like Kay, she’s presumed to be a SmugStraightEdge by the main characters.
* [[FatAndSkinny Fat Clodagh and Wee Maria McGill]] - Towards the end of the book, we find out they’ve had a [[HeroOfAnotherStory similarly wild day]] as they've been arrested for shoplifting
!!Kylah [=McManus=]
-> '''Portrayed by:''' Frances Mayli [=McCann=] (‘’Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour’’), Marli Siu (‘’Our Ladies’’)
* AMFMCharacterization: Has very strong opinions about which bands are worth her time and is apparently able to bend the rest of the choir to her will when it comes to music selections on the coach down to Edinburgh.
* BrilliantButLazy: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Kylah is a talented performer and songwriter but doesn’t harbour any great aspirations for her band. She just wants to get her dream job of working the record counter at Woolies. However, her lack of ambition isn’t framed as laziness. If anything, it seems like a goal that’s actually achievable given the general lack of attractive job opportunities in the Port.
!!Rachel “Chell” [=MacDougal=]
-> '''Portrayed by:''' Caroline Deyga (‘’Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour’’), Rona Morrison (‘’Our Ladies’’)
* DisappearedDad: Chell has two. Her Daddy Patrick was LostAtSea while Chell was still in primary school. There's also Actual Daddy, her biological father, who she never knew.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Loves looking after animals.
* ParentalFashionVeto: She hides some of her more daring clothes in a local bush in order to avoid being given on of these by her mum.
!!Orla Johnstone
-> '''Portrayed by:''' Melissa Allan (‘’Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour’’), Tallulah Grieve (‘’Our Ladies’’)
* IllGirl: At the start of the book, she's in remission from Hodgkin Lymphoma
* LittlestCancerPatient: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] hard. Orla is just as eager to drink and screw around as the other girls.
* SuddenMorbidMonologue: A flashback in the novel to when she was in hospital for chemo appears as a monologue in a shoe shop in the play.
!!(A)Manda Tassy
-> '''Portrayed by:''' Kirsty [=MacLaren=] (‘’Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour’’), Sally Messham (‘’Our Ladies’’)
!!Kay Clarke
-> '''Portrayed by:''' Karen Fishwick (‘’Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour’’), Eve Austin (‘’Our Ladies’’)
* BigFancyHouse: Lives in a detached house on Pulpit Hill, an affluent area of the Port.
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Kay’s father is a doctor who is also [[spoiler:a religiously-motivated anti-abortion advocate.]] Kay’s main goal on the trip to Edinburgh is to [[spoiler:terminate her pregnancy without him finding out about it.]]
!!Michelle [=MacGregor=]
-> '''Portrayed by:''' Karen Fishwick (‘’Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour’’)
A former pupil who has dropped out due to her TeenPregnancy.
!!Other Choir Members:
The other pupils in the school choir are [[DramatisPersonae listed]] early on in the book, but are only mentioned [[RecurringExtra in passing thereafter]]:
* Yolanda McCormack
* Assumpta
* Aisling
* Iona
* Shuna - In the play, she’s given the [[NamedByTheAdaptation surname]] [=MacLaughlin=] and made into a CompositeCharacter with Michelle [=MacGregor=].
* “Ordinary” Fionnula Morton
* English Katie
* Ana-Bessie Baberton - Another fee-paying pupil like Kay. Her dad works as a solicitor. Like Kay, she’s presumed to be a SmugStraightEdge by the main characters.
* [[FatAndSkinny Fat Clodagh and Wee Maria McGill]] - Towards the end of the book, we find out they’ve had a [[HeroOfAnotherStory similarly wild day]] as they've been arrested for shoplifting
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!!Fionnula “the Cooler” [=McConnell=]
-> '''Portrayed by:''' Dawn Sievewright (‘’Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour’’), Abigail Lawrie (‘’Our Ladies’’)
* BeneathTheMask: Is generally regarded as TheLifeOfTheParty by the rest of the Sopranos, but over the course of the book she starts to explore her own identity outside of the group.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted in the book where Fionnula is known as "Fionnula the Cooler" so as to distinguish her from Ordinary Fionnula, who is only mentioned briefly.
*SpellMyNameWithAnS: In the film, her name is spelled "Finnoula."
-> '''Portrayed by:''' Dawn Sievewright (‘’Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour’’), Abigail Lawrie (‘’Our Ladies’’)
* BeneathTheMask: Is generally regarded as TheLifeOfTheParty by the rest of the Sopranos, but over the course of the book she starts to explore her own identity outside of the group.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted in the book where Fionnula is known as "Fionnula the Cooler" so as to distinguish her from Ordinary Fionnula, who is only mentioned briefly.
*SpellMyNameWithAnS: In the film, her name is spelled "Finnoula."
