Nell Leyshon

Comfort me with Apples (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright.
Shortlisted for Susan Smith Blackburn Award.

Autumn, and the orchard is full of cider apples: Beauty of Bath, Kingston Black and Glory of the West.

Inside the farmhouse, the rule of the matriach Irene is challenged when her estranged daughter returns and her middle-aged son, beginning to tire of being tied to the unprofitable farm, grows restless.

A richly evocative tale about life in our changing rural landscape.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 78
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849437035
• Artikelnr.: 49848458

Autorenporträt

Nell Leyshon is a novelist and playwright, born in Glastonbury and now based in Dorset. She has written a number of plays for BBC Radios 3 and 4. Her stage plays include Comfort Me with Apples, which won the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright award in 2005 and an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's short story Don't Look Now. In 2010, she became the first female playwright to be commissioned to write for Shakespeare's Globe since 1599.