viv young Young
I am a writer, journalist and, after completing a Masters in screenwriting - and a lot of hard work - a screenwriter! My feature length script A DARK REFLECTION was produced and I currently have several TV pilot scripts, including COME OUT TO PLAY and BLOOD RELATIONS, with my lovely agent. Last year my short play RELATIVE VALUES was produced on stage at the Chiswick Playhouse. A short film commission FINDING WILSON is now in post. After the publication of a non-fiction work in a 'previous lifetime' I have digitally published HUNGRY FOR LIFE, a finalist in the Page Turner Book Awards. It is the first in a series of books following an Irish family from Victorian times to the present. Currently I am working on the second book in the Irish, and with an LA-based producer on a high concept TV drama series called JACKALs . I have a passion for history, and for telling stories from unique or underrepresented perspectives - especially the older woman, so often overlooked and undervalued by society. Whether exploring these character's lives, loves and flaws in long-form television drama, or the magical big screen, my goal is to fascinate and engage viewers with a fresh voice and a light touch.
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OVERVIEW: Young widow, Ruth Steel, is fiercely protective of her tweenager daughter, Alice. Their closely-knit lives revolve around their isolated farm holding and the injured racehorses they are paid to rehabilitate. One stormy night a landslide knocks out the only road in or out, and Ruth discovers Charlie, late 20’s, badly injured in her barn with no signs of how he got there.
Alice overrules Ruth’s apprehension about helping the handsome stranger and they haul him into the farmhouse to nurse his wounds. Soon Charlie reveals to Ruth that he is the son of Alice’s surrogate mother, and needs a life-saving stem cell transplant. He claims Alice is a donor match. But with Ruth desperate to keep the secret of her birth from her fragile daughter, a three-way cat and mouse game begins. Charlie plays mother off against daughter, and as the balance of power in the struggle for Alice’s love shifts, we begin to realise that no one is entirely innocent. But Ruth will need more than the power of a mother’s love to save her daughter from the truth, and her own demons?
