Four young people in 1970s London race toward the future, fueled by love, betrayal, and creative ambition.
Luke Kanowski is a young playwright- intense, magnetic, and eager for life. He escapes a disastrous upbringing in the northeast and, arriving in London, meets Paul Driscoll, an aspiring producer, and the beautiful, fiery Leigh Radley, the woman Paul loves.
The three set up a radical theater company, living and working together; a romantic connection forged in candlelit rehearsal rooms during power cuts and smoky late-night parties in Chelsea’s run-down flats. The gritty rebellion of pub theater is fighting for its place against a West End dominated by racy revue shows and the giants of twentieth-century drama.
Nina Jacobs is a fragile actress, bullied by her mother and in thrall to a controlling producer. When Luke meets Nina, he recognizes a soul in danger-but how much must he risk to save her? Everything he has fought for-loyalty, friendship, art-is drawn into the heat of their collision. As Luke ricochets between honesty and deceit, the promise of the future and his own painful past, the fallout threatens to be immense.
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Sadie Jones is the author of four novels, including The Outcast, winner of the Costa First Novel Award in Great Britain and a finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize/Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, Small Wars, and the bestselling The Uninvited Guests. She lives in London.
In terms of the story of the amateur theatre company being born and the bright young playwright’s emergence, subtle relations between people are revealed and explored. Vivid characters and dialogues, live as life, help to present love, kindness and compassion as a medicine for loneliness of the soul.
| Author | Sadie Jones |
|---|---|
| Country | GB |
| Nominating Library | M. Rudomino State Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow, Russia |
| Publisher | Published by HarperCollins, USA |
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