In the drawing room of the Presidential Palace, a Western photojournalist awaits the return of the dictator. She is here to take his portrait. The dictator's wife, her best friend, and an interpreter
A moving memoir from the award-winning screenwriter and playwright Abi Morgan about what happens when the person you love most no longer recognizes you
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERBoth very funny and as propulsive as a thriller…impossible to put down’ RACHEL COOKE, Observer‘Breathtaking . . . this book is a gift’ MERYL STREEP‘The kind of book you will find yourself saying urgently, over and over, to friends: ‘Have you read it?’ CAITLIN MORAN‘Gripping, funny and always honest’ DAVID NICHOLLS‘Truly breathtaking. I could not have loved it more’ CAREY MULLIGAN________________________An ordinary day.The end of ordinary life.One morning in June, Abi had her to-do list – drop the kids to school, get coffee and go to work. Jacob had a bad headache so she added ‘pick up steroids’. She returned home and found the man she loved and fought and laughed with for twenty years lying on the bathroom floor.And nothing would ever be the same again.But this is not a pity memoir. It’s about meeting your person. And crazed late night Google trawls. It’s about the things you wished you’d said to the person that matters then wildly over-sharing with
'The kind of book you will find yourself saying urgently, over and over, to friends: 'Have you read it?' CAITLIN MORAN'Gripping, funny and always honest' DAVID NICHOLLS'I honestly couldn't put it down' MARINA HYDEAn ordinary day.The end of ordinary life.One morning in June, Abi had her to-do list - drop the kids to school, get coffee and go to work. Jacob had a bad headache so she added 'pick up steroids'. She returned home and found the man she loved and fought and laughed with for twenty years lying on the bathroom floor. And nothing would ever be the same again.But this is not a pity memoir. It's about meeting your person.And crazed late night Google trawls. It's about the things you wished you'd said to the person that matters then wildly over-sharing with the barista who doesn't know you at all. It's about sushi and the wrong shoes and the moments you want to shout 'cut'.It's about the silence when you are lost in space and the importance of family and parties and noise.It's
Lovesong intertwines a couple in their 20s with the same man and woman a lifetime later. Their past and present selves collide in this haunting and beautiful tale of togetherness. All relationships ha
Inside a beautiful state residence on the edge of an Eastern European city, four women wait. They talk - movies, handbags, vodka, anything. For outside, as snow is falling, civil war looms ever nearer
The first collection of plays from multi-award-winning playwright and screenwriter Abi Morgan, whose film credits include the screenplays forThe Iron Lady, Shame, The Invisible Woman, and the upcoming
Tiny Dynamite: when memory takes hold, when chaos takes over and when the electricity between us becomes overwhelming. An impossible love story is given a second chance and three scorched characters a
