Our Lady of Blundellsands [Paperback]

It's no secret that Sylvie is unravelling. Frozen in time in her Blundellsands house, she inhabits a fantasy world that never was. Garnet, her sister, is older and wiser  and wearier, with her shopping lists and tired love. She's always fanned the flames of Sylvie's fantasies. Because if she didn't& who knows where they'd both end up?

But now the whole family's up in Liverpool for a birthday, and Garnet's got a secret of her own to pass on. There'll be a party& but it's not going to be pretty.

Welcome to a family more messed up than your own.

Jonathan Harveyis an award-winning playwright, whose plays includeThe Cherry Blossom Tree(Liverpool Playhouse Studio), which won him the 1987 National Girobank Young Writer of the Year Award;Wildfire(Royal Court Theatre);Beautiful Thing(Bush Theatre, London and Donmar Warehouse/Duke of York's Theatre), winner of the John Whiting Award 1994;Babies(Royal National Theatre Studio/Royal Court Theatre), winner George Devine Award 1993 and Evening Standard's Most Promising Playwright Award 1994;Boom Bang-A-Bang(Bush Theatre);Rupert Street Lonely HeartsClub(English Touring Theatre/Contact Theatre Company, Donmar Warehouse/Criterion Theatre);Swan Song(Pleasance/Hampstead Theatre);Guiding Star(Liverpool Everyman/National Theatre);Hushabye Mountain(English Touring Theatre/Hampstead) andOut in the Open(Hampstead Theatre/Birmingham Rep). Television and film work includes:West End Girls(Carlton);Love Junkie(BBC);Beautiful Thing(Channel Four/Island World Productions);Gimme Gimme Gimme(BBC).

Jonathan Harvey has an athletic and fantastical imagination, bawdy, funny and joyously blasphemous Sunday Times

Jonathan Harvey has extraordinary skill in writing sensitive, witty dialogue.Our Lady of Blundellsandsis an outstanding example of his ability to create utterly believable characters in eqlƒJ