Our Lady of Blundellsands

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Its no secret that Sylvie is unravelling. Frozen in time in her Blundellsands house, she inhabits a fantasy world that never was. Garnet, her sister, is older and wiser and wearier, with her shopping lists and tired love. Shes always fanned the flames of Sylvies fantasies. Because if she didnt who knows where theyd both end up But now the whole familys up in Liverpool for a birthday, and Garnets got a secret of her own to pass on. Therell be a party but its not going to be pretty. Welcome to a family more messed up than your own.

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Jonathan Harvey has an athletic and fantastical imagination, bawdy, funny and joyously blasphemous * Sunday Times *
Jonathan Harvey has extraordinary skill in writing sensitive, witty dialogue. Our Lady of Blundellsands is an outstanding example of his ability to create utterly believable characters in equally believable, surreal scenarios. * The Stage *

Author Bio

Jonathan Harvey is an award-winning playwright, whose plays include The Cherry Blossom Tree(Liverpool Playhouse Studio), which won him the 1987 National Girobank Young Writer of the Year Award; Wildfire (Royal Court Theatre); Beautiful Thing (Bush Theatre, London and Donmar Warehouse/Duke of York's Theatre), winner of the John Whiting Award 1994; Babies (Royal National Theatre Studio/Royal Court Theatre), winner George Devine Award 1993 and Evening Standard's Most Promising Playwright Award 1994; Boom Bang-A-Bang (Bush Theatre); Rupert Street Lonely HeartsClub (English Touring Theatre/Contact Theatre Company, Donmar Warehouse/Criterion Theatre); Swan Song (Pleasance/Hampstead Theatre); Guiding Star (Liverpool Everyman/National Theatre); Hushabye Mountain (English Touring Theatre/Hampstead) and Out in the Open (Hampstead Theatre/Birmingham Rep). Television and film work includes: West End Girls (Carlton); Love Junkie (BBC); Beautiful Thing(Channel Four/Island World Productions); Gimme Gimme Gimme (BBC).