Alys, Always
$27.04
- Paperback
120 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2019
Summary
A psychological thriller excavating the fault lines that separate the entitled from the rest, Alys, Always is adapted for the stage by Lucinda Coxon from Harriet Lane’s gripping novel.
Frances works on the books pages of a Sunday newspaper. She’s quiet and capable, but nobody takes much notice: her face is pressed to the window, on the outside, looking in.
One evening, driving back to London after visiting her infuriating parents, she comes across an overturned car cru…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848428409 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848428405 |
| Author: | Harriet Lane, Lucinda Coxon |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 120 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2019 |
| Weight: | 144g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
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Critics Review
“Wonderfully observed… a gripping, psychologically complex achievement, whose greatest success is the lingering sense of unease.” –Sunday Telegraph on Harriet Lane’s novel
‘A smart, slick psychodrama with a mischievous satirical undercurrent’
* Time Out *‘An unsettling thriller’
* The Times *About The Author
Harriet Lane
Harriet Lane is a British writer, author of the novels Alys, Always and Her.Lucinda Coxon is an English playwright and screenwriter.Her plays include: a version of Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman (Bridge Theatre, London, 2022); Alys, Always, adapted from the novel by Harriet Lane (Bridge Theatre, London, 2019); Herding Cats (Ustinov Theatre, Bath, 2010, & Hampstead Theatre, 2011); and Happy Now? (National Theatre, 2008).Her screenplays include The Danish Girl, The Crimson Petal and the White and The Little Stranger.
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