The Performance by Claire Thomas

The Performance by Claire Thomas

A novel about three women at turning points in their lives, and the one night that changes everything.

One night, three women go to the theater to see a play. Wildfires are burning in the hills outside, but inside the theater it is time for the performance to take over.

Margot is a successful, flinty professor on the cusp of retirement, distracted by her fraught relationship with her adult son and her ailing husband. After a traumatic past, Ivy is is now a philanthropist with a seemingly perfect life. Summer is a young drama student, an usher at the theater, and frantically worried for her girlfriend whose parents live in the fire zone.

While the performance unfolds on stage, so does the compelling trajectory that will bring these three women together, changing them all. Deliciously intimate and yet emotionally wide-ranging, The Performance is a novel that both explores the inner lives of women as it underscores the power of art and memory to transform us.

Claire Thomas is the mother of two multilingual children herself. She was a founding member of the Waltham Forest Bilingual Group and served as the group's Secretary for eight years. She has assisted in the design and facilitation of a variety of parent programs, and she has spoken with hundreds of parents on bilingual family decisions and problems. The Waltham Forest Bilingual Group is a small, all-volunteer community of bilingual parents. It offers monthly drop-in sessions, quarterly courses, and speaker events to parents in such families in North East London. Visit www.wfbilingual.org.uk for further information or to get in touch.

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ISBN 13	9780593329177
ISBN 10	0593329171
Title	The Performance
Author	Claire Thomas
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Riverhead Books
Year published	2022-03-15
Number of pages	240
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