No Rest for the Wicked by Wendy Robertson
The old saying is true...and when the bright lights of the theatre collide with the old values of a small community, the stage is quite literally set for trouble. In the poverty-stricken years after the First World War, a travelling troupe of players arrives in the small Northern village of Bishop Auckland. Understandably, tensions rise. The players are exotic, foreign, loose. They care nothing for local opinion. Or do they? Is Pippa, the heroine, searching for home? And will she find it in this old-fashioned place where times are hard and you can't run away from your problems by hitting the road again?
'A great storyteller' Northern Echo 'A powerful writer inspired by history, her much-loved home region and her experience of working-class life at its poorest and most difficult' Mail on Sunday 'Skilfully marries faction and fiction into an epic tale that has you turning the pages at high speed to match the pace of this compelling story' -- Sunderland Echo
Wendy Robertson grew up in the North of England, one of four children whose widowed mother, an ex-nurse, worked in a factory. Wendy worked as a teacher, then a lecturer, gaining a Master's degree whilst also at various times writing short stories, articles, a weekly column in the Northern Echo and novels for young adults published nationally. A full-time writer since 1989, she has also run a writing group and workshops for new writers, and was recently Writer In Residence at Long Newton Prison.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780755309443 |
| ISBN 10 | 0755309448 |
| Title | No Rest for the Wicked |
| Author | Wendy Robertson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Headline Publishing Group |
| Year published | 2005-09-05 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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