Eight

“Him with her, the room, her cheap knickers on the floor, you’d like to think they’re cheap — they’re probably not, they’re probably more expensive, more see-through, more size-eight than yours have ever been.”

Astrid is cheating on her boyfriend. Danny talks to dead people. Andre's partner just killed himself. Bobby is struggling to make ends meet. This state of the nation portrait questions who we have become in a world with with an abundance of everything except for self belief, and a little bit of faith. Ella Hickson's Eight is a dark, touching, and often funny portrayal of life in an age of excess.