Publisher Description

A play about love, death, identity and evolution, from the bestselling and highly acclaimed novelist.Elizabeth, forty-something, childless, recently separated, just wants to be alone. She's moved into a converted Victorian mansion, alive with history, character, woodworm and rot. But worse than that she's besieged by invaders of the human kind. Her best friend, her sister, their mother, the builder and a photographer are all determined to make their mark. And a former inhabitant of the house, disturbed from her resting place by Elizabeth's arrival, revisits her own long-forgotten past.Kate Atkinson's play Abandonment was first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 2000.'Atkinson has arrived at theatrical customs with a huge amount to declare'— Guardian'Witty, intelligent and absorbing... terrific comic dialogue'— Scotsman

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Premiere at the Traverse theatre at this year's Edinburgh festival

Author Biography

Kate Atkinson won the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year Award with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. She is the author of other best-selling novels and Abandonment, her first full-length play, premiered at the Traverse Theatre in 2000.

Review

'Atkinson has arrived at theatrical customs with a huge amount to declare' * Guardian *
'Witty, intelligent and absorbing... terrific comic dialogue' * Scotsman *

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Premiere at the Traverse theatre at this year's Edinburgh festival

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'Witty, intelligent and absorbing... terrific comic dialogue'

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* High profile premiere at Traverse Theatre/Edinburgh Festival * media interest in well-known novelist writing first play

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