Nothing like wishful thinking to get an author going, when struggling with the need to be marketeer too… realistic casting below this poster…. and soundtrack too.
Here’s Richard Lynch who would be great as Carys’s dad:

And Sharon Roberts would be perfect to be her mum, Gwen:

And finally Carys herself…Non Haf is graduating from drama school this year, with a spunky audition tape

Sound Track

The miners’ wives, the Gritties love to sing ‘Robert De Niro’s Waiting Talking Italian’ by Bananarama – but they change the words to ‘Gwyn Price’ (hero/villain) ‘talking Welsh’.

At the fashion show the soundtrack includes: Prince ‘When Doves Cry’ ( Doves over a mine are a mining superstition – but Carys uses it as a sexy soundtrack for her performance ).

This scene also features Rockwell : ‘Somebody’s Watching Me’ ; Michael Jackson: ‘Thriller’; Billy Joel’s: ‘Uptown Girl’ ; and Lionel Richie’s ‘All Night Long’.

The musical inspiration for the Gritties is the Manic Street Preachers ‘Design for Life’ which was written about the mine closures.

The Gritties Trailer 2 from Owen Davies on Vimeo

A terrific read…The Gritties depicts a very different 1980s from the one of yuppies and pop promos that we usually see on tv. And it’s got one of the funniest sex scene I have ever read! But it is also shocking and sad – it’s about how human beings wrestle against their fate. It’s a very appropriate subject for our own times – where two very different cultures of haves and have-nots prevail in the UK. *****amazon review

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