Results for: books tagged ‘Families’
Philadelphia, Here I Come: Brian Friel
Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and the humiliating job in his father's grocery shop, with his frustrated love for Kathy Doogan ... More
The Elder Statesman: T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot's last play, drafted originally in 1955 but not completed until three years later. Lord Claverton, an eminent former cabinet minister and banker, is helped to confront his ... More
The Cherry Orchard: Anton Chekhov and Trevor Griffiths
Dancing at Lughnasa: Brian Friel
It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging ... More
Blood Wedding: Federico Garcia Lorca and Ted Hughes
Lorca's Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. The story is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with ... More
Amy's View: David Hare
It is 1979. Esme Allen is a well-known West End actress at just the moment when the West End is ceasing to offer actors a regular way of life. The ... More
Bright Angel Time: Martha McPhee
Set in the early 1970s, Bright Angel Time is a dazzling first novel about eight-year-old Kate and her two sisters, whose lives are turned upside down when their mother falls ... More
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard: Kiran Desai
The delightful story of Sampath Chawla, bored post-office clerk and dreamer, who takes to the branches of a secluded guava tree in search of the contemplative life - only to ... More
A Warwickshire Testimony: April de Angelis
The past: the 'big house', the servant class, the close-knit family ties of a bygone generation. Rural idyll or claustrophobic hellhole? Desperate to get away from her family and from ... More
Anywhere But Here: Mona Simpson
Published to extraordinary critical acclaim in 1987, Mona Simpson's exceptional first novel tells the story of a mother and daughter, Adele and Ann, making their way west from Bay City ... More
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