Val Turner

Val is Morgan's younger sister and left Blainau at the age of 17. A great reader of magazines, Val was discontent in the countryside and the limited opportunities it offered her. She was also driven from the family home by her poor relationship with her parents.


 * "He [her father] cared more for them [the farm animals] than he did for me - except that I’d make good breeding stock when it came to it.” (Val, pg 113, episode 4)


 * “At my father’s funeral my mother told me I’d broken his heart.” (Val, pg 113, episode 4)

Personality and habits
Val is a serious woman who seems to find it difficulty in reconciling her relationships with various characters in the show. She is devoted to Lee, although she is very awkward around her brother Morgan, and while she is initially very affectionate towards Alan (and blind to his faults), she does eventually go off Alan.

Notably, in Episode 1, Val is shown to be nearly tolerant of Alan's violence towards - an indication, later elucidated, that she is used to this kind of domestic violence, although she does stand up for Lee in later episodes even if she does not physically step in to their arguments. It is later heavily implied through contextual clues and a conversation with Lee in Episode 8, that The Old Gentleman was physically violent towards Morgan (it is unclear if he was also violent towards Val and The Old Lady as well) and so Val is used to this kind of behaviour, in a way.