Books

Georgie Lees, market trader and almost professional actress, has three touchstones in her life.

Mary, her mother, publican and embroiderer, is beginning to worry Georgie with her erratic behaviour; her son is struggling at school and, at ten, is too old to be cuddled for comfort but too young to talk to; and his father, the local funeral director, spends more time talking to the plants in his allotment than to any of them.

Then a new player enters Georgie’s life, the comical but efficient, dramatic but stoical Brian.
It is a death that irrevocably changes their lives and asks the question lying behind all their choices - what is the best way to play one’s life off stage?