Lynne McVernon

Terrible With Raisins (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Growing up at last?

Clair knew what was coming.

'...something pretty terrible...Not just plain terrible. This was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it'.

From 'The Middle or Blue Period', Dorothy Parker

There's a big birthday looming. Clair tries hiding from it on the Aegean island of Symi, Greece. Inevitably it catches up with her. But so do a couple of possibilities, interesting, attractive ones...Encouraged, she departs the Greek idyll to face the reality of her demanding daughter, her hypercritical mother, and the special person in Scotland who keeps her sane. But there's a secret she keeps from them all. In the coming year, she will swallow a lot of raisins, sweet and sour, in England, Scotland and Florida. She will discover plenty - and forget a few things (it was a BIG birthday), and, reluctantly, reveal her secret. Mother, daughter, niece, lover, reluctant teacher and neglected artist - will the real Clair Harkin please grow up?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lynne McVernon
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781838533380
• Artikelnr.: 59752004

Autorenporträt

Lynne is Home Counties escapee living by the sea at last, in Devon. She's written two novels, Terrible With Raisins and Jigsaw Island and, most recently, published an anthology of short stories, Leaving Home. The novels feature some of the same characters and share settings in the glorious Dodecanese Islands of Greece, although both are standalone works and can be read individually. Leaving Home is a collection of stories written over some years, some are prizewinners, one a BBC broadcast. She has a portfolio of scripts dating back to her effort, at ten years old, for 'Write a Play', hosted on television by Jimmy Hanley (it didn't win). Since then she has written for the stage both adult and children's material, adapted and directed three Dickens novels for large casts, and two classics for BBC Radio. She studied at Wimbledon School of Art, the University of Reading, and was awarded a bursary on the Regional Theatres Trainee Directors' Scheme. Following this, she directed at theatres around the UK for some twenty five years, including The Young Vic, National Theatre, various repertory theatres, Theatre About Glasgow (Citizens' Theatre), and ran Dundee Rep's touring theatre company in Tayside. Some of her favourite work has been with students at leading drama schools. She has also volunteered teaching English as a Second Language to refugees in Devon.