Marriage Material, 9781350584761
Paperback
Three generations, family secrets, and a corner shop’s changing future.

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  • Paperback

    128 pages

  • Release Date

    21 May 2025

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Summary

Marriage Material: A Family’s Corner of England

In our shops we will be Kings of England. And we will make this place our place.

The Bains’ corner shop in Wolverhampton has been at the centre of the family for three generations.

Against the backdrop of a changing 20th century, Mrs Bains is balancing running the business, caring for her ailing husband and the demands of her two headstrong daughters, who each have their eye on a different kind…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781350584761
ISBN-10:1350584762
Series:Modern Plays
Author:Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, Sathnam Sanghera
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:Methuen Drama
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:128
Release Date:21 May 2025
Weight:146g
Dimensions:196mm x 124mm x 14mm
About The Author

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti writes for stage, screen and radio.

Her first play Behsharam broke box office records at Soho/Birmingham Rep. Her second play Behzti was sensationally closed after protests and won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. It went on to do sell-out tours in France and Belgium. Other credits include Scenes from Lost Mothers, Clean Break; A Kind of People, Royal Court Downstairs; Khandan, Royal Court Upstairs/Birmingham Rep; Behud, Soho/Coventry Belgrade; Silence, Donmar Warehouse; 846, Stratford East; Elephant, Birmingham Rep; Dishoom, Rifco/Watford Palace Theatre; Fourteen, Watford Palace Theatre; the feature film Everywhere And Nowhere; DCI Stone, Radio 4; Londonee, Rich Mix; Dead Meat, Channel 4; The Archers, Radio 4; EastEnders, BBC and An Enemy Of The People, BBC World Service.

Her plays are published by Methuen.

‘This is the Royal Court at its best.’ Michael Billington, The Guardian, on A Kind of People

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