The Girls by John Bowen
In their lovely old Cotswolds village, Janet and Susan are known to all the other villagers as “the girls” - a fixture. Partners in love and work, co-proprietors of a picturesque shop specialising in the work of local artisans and farmers, they lead an enviable, enviably settled life. So it’s no catastrophe when Sue, the younger of the two, feels the need to take a month to travel on her own, leaving Jan alone to run their stall at the Inland Waterways Rally Craft Fair. Nor is it any real threat when a kindly gay man named Alan lends Jan a hand in Sue’s absence, or when the two wind up sharing some wine and even a bunk for the night. If Jan turns out to be pregnant some weeks after Sue’s return to the nest, what’s that but cause for joy? And when Alan happens to come visiting, by and by, finding the delighted girls raising a beautiful baby boy, who can blame him for wanting to share in a small part of their bliss? Yes, theirs is an enviable, enviably settled life. And the girls will defend it with every tool at their disposal.
John Bowen was born in India in 1924 and reared by aunts and grandparents in the UK. After an uneventful war, he went to Oxford to read History. He began his writing life as a novelist and was recruited to television drama by the director, Peter Wood, then began writing for the stage. His first play, I Love You, Mrs Patterson opened at the St Martin's Theatre in 1964. His second, After The Rain, has been produced all over Europe as well as the USA, Canada and Australia, as has his third the double-bill Little Boxes. Of his other plays, Singles and The Corsican Brothers were first produced at the Greenwich Theatre, The Disorderly Women at Manchester, Florence Nightingale at Canterbury, Heil Caesar at the Midland Arts. He has also adapted Marivaux for the Chichester Arts Festival and Moliere for Lancaster.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781946022707 |
| ISBN 10 | 1946022705 |
| Title | The Girls |
| Author | John Bowen |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | McNally Jackson Books |
| Year published | 2023-12-18 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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