The Lovely Bones

Susie Salmon is just like any other young American girl. She wants to be beautiful, adores her charm bracelet and has a crush on a boy from school. There''s one big difference though - Susie is dead.Add: Now she can only observe while her family manage their grief in their different ways. Susie is desperate to help them and there might be a way of reaching them. Alice Sebold''s novel The Lovely Bones is a unique coming-of-age tale that captured the hearts of readers throughout the world. Award-winning playwright Bryony Lavery has adapted it for this unforgettable play about life after loss.>

About the author

A rounded theatre practitioner, Bryony Lavery's skills extend to performer (most notably as Tinkerbell in Peter Pan at the Drill Hall), artistic director (Gay Sweatshop and Female Trouble), writer of children's theatre (including The Dragon Wakes, Madagaskar, and Down Among the Mini Beast) and of many cabarets (including Floorshow with Caryl Churchill for Monstrous Regiment in 1977). From 1989 to 1992 she was Tutor-Lecturer on the M.A. Playwriting Course at Birmingham University. She is an honorary Doctor of Arts at De Montfort University. 'Lavery is one of the best but most consistently underrated playwrights in the country: her talent is lavish. She is a wonderful technician and always surprising: it is never possible to second-guess her.' – Kate Kellaway, Observer

Product details

• Authors: Alice Sebold, Sebold Alice
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.04.2022
• EAN: 9781350326316
• ISBN: 978-1-350-32631-6
• No. of pages: 178
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Modern Plays; Oberon Modern Plays
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Thrillers / General, Crime & mystery, DRAMA / General, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Ireland, Theatre Studies, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Creative writing & creative writing guides, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Theatre Direction & Production