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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Jan 2012
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Retail Price: $18.00
Pages: 256
"This involving novel puts you inside the mind of Molly Allgood, an elderly actress wandering around the brilliantly evoked 1950s London of crumbling lodging houses and uncleared bombsites. Contrasting with the down-at-heel circumstances to which she is reduced are memories, rendered with sensuous freshness and vernacular wit, of her rich past, especially her love affair in 1907 Dublin with the Abbey Theatre playwright John Synge in whose The Playboy of the Western World she starred." —Peter Kemp, TheSunday Times (London), "Books of the Year"