Setting

The short story “The Fabulous Button Sisters” by Sarah Salway is set in the United Kingdom, as the references to Birmingham, England (where Michelle moves) suggest (l. 146), but we do not know the exact city of the main action.

Time and physical setting

The time setting was probably intended to be contemporary to the time the short story was published (2006) and the main events take place during an afternoon and an evening, although there are also several references to past

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Social setting

However, the story is more about the social setting which targets friendships between teenagers and different ways of bringing up children.

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