Stevie: From the Life and Work of Stevie Smith (Acting Edition S.)

Whitemore, Hugh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0573114188 ISBN 13: 9780573114182

Publisher: Samuel French Ltd, 2015

Smith commutes to the West End to her work as a secretary at a publishing company. Her evenings are spent at home with her beloved aunt - a world of battenberg cake, gossip, ginger nuts and sherry in tiny glasses. But at the same time as leading this seemingly mundane suburban existence, she is writing the piercing poetry and prose that will one day make her famous. Stevie is a biographical snapshot of both the poet and the private woman. Shot through with wit, this is the story of an endearing heroine, her unconventional life, powerful and popular poetry and her greatest struggle: to keep waving and not drowning.

Review:

Hugh Whitemore has plundered the side roads of history to good dramatic effect in plays like Stevie... -- Steve Grant, Time Out

From the Publisher:

Amber Lane Press has also published Hugh Whitemore's plays The Best of Friends, Disposing of the Body, God Only Knows, It's Ralph and A Letter of Resignation.