Terence Frisby

Broschiertes Buch

Kisses on a Postcard

A Tale of Wartime Childhood

Beschreibung

'When you get there,' our mum said, 'you find out your new address and you write it on the card. Then you post it at once. Now, the code. Our secret code ... You know how to write a kiss? Well, put one kiss if it's horrible and I'll come straight there and bring you back home. You put two kisses if it's all right. And three kisses if it's really nice. D'you see? Then I'll know'
13 June, 1940. Carefully labelled, and each clutching little brown suitcases, Terry, aged seven, and his elder brother Jack, eleven, stand amid the throng of children which crowds the narrow platform at Welling station awaiting the steam engine which will pull them and their fellow evacuees across the country towards their unknown destination - and their new lives...

Warm-hearted and moving, Kisses on a Postcard is a vivid and intimate portrait of our wartime history; a compelling and uplifting memoir of growing up in an extraordinary time.

Autor

TERENCE FRISBY is a playwright. He has worked extensively for many years as an actor, director and producer. His most famous play, There's A Girl In My Soup, was London's longest-running comedy and a worldwide smash hit. His script of the film, which starred Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn, won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for the Best British Comedy Screenplay. His other plays are performed internationally. He has written many television plays and two television comedy series: Lucky Feller with David Jason, and That's Love, which won the Gold Award for Comedy at Houston IFF. As producer, he is most proud of presenting the multi-award-winning, South African show Woza Albert at the Criterion Theatre, subsequently off-Broadway. His BBC Radio 4 play, Just Remember Two Things: It's Not Fair and Don't Be Late, from which Kisses On A Postcard sprang, won The Giles Cooper Play Of the Year Award. A musical stage version of was produced at the Queen's Theatre, Barnstaple in 2004. Terence is currently mounting a production of it for London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 36745
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 188g
• ISBN-13: 9781408801062
• ISBN-10: 140880106X
• Artikelnr.: 27822984

Rezensionen

'In World War Two evacuation was often more frightening for a child than the air-raids from which he was being saved, so it is surprising and delightful to read a positive account of the experience. Frisby has done something difficult: he has made good times and good people more fun to read about than any melodrama, in a book that leaves one feeling grateful and happy' Diana Athill