Fiona Shaw

Dr. Fiona Shaw is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing. She is also the author of five novels and a memoir, Out of Me (1997). Her five novels are: The Sweetest Thing (Virago, 2003), The Picture She Took (2005), Tell it to the Bees (Tindal Street, 2009), A Stone's Throw (Serpent's Tail, 2012) and Outwalkers (David Fickling Books 2018).

Lesbian Stories and the Pathology of The Bittersweet Hollywood Ending

by Fiona Shaw | Sep 20, 2019

The screenwriters for Tell it to the Bees wanted to give the film a “sweeping romantic ending”, like Brief Encounter or Dr Zhivago. But they wanted them to have a divided happiness – one of them can have the happiness of staying in the town to have a fulfilling career; and the other can have the future happiness of finding love in a more tolerant place. But they can’t have those two things in the same place and with each other.