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Kisses on a Postcard 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 pulls them and their fellow evacuees across the country towards their unknown destination, and their new lives... Full description
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'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
About the Author:
TERENCE FRISBY is a playwright, 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 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 Waza Albert at the Criterion Theatre, London, and 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 was produced at the Queen's Theatre, Barnstaple in 2004. Terence is currently mounting a production of it for London's West End.
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- PublisherParagon
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1408459558
- ISBN 13 9781408459553
- BindingPaperback
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