Jennie Lee's Homework Project (Paperback or Softback)

Jennie Lee’s Homework Project by William Hershaw, a play suitable for upper primary/lower secondary school ages.‘Jennie Lee is a girl who seems switched off from school, family and life. Then a visit to a local castle where an archaeological dig is taking place results in an accident, taking her back in time to a meeting with her famous namesake . . .

William Hershaw: Poet, musician and songwriter.

Hershaw has written poetry in both Scots and English; his pamphlet Winter Song won the Callum MacDonald Memorial Award in 2003, and he won the McCash Prize for Scots Poetry in 2011. In 2007 he collaborated with sculptor David Annand, writing the poem 'God The Miner' which is inscribed on the statue The Prop as part of the Lochgelly Regeneration Project. He was funded by Fife Council to write musical settings for the poems of the legendary Fife poet and playwright Joe Corrie: in November 2012 Cage Load Of Men: The Joe Corrie Project by The Bowhill Players was released. He has co-edited the literary magazine Fras. Grace Note published three of his Scots language plays in 2016, including a translation of Shakespeare's Tempest, and a novel, Tammy Norrie. His play with Ann McCluskey, An Iolaire was premiered in March 2016 at the Netherbow Arts Theatre, performed by pupils from Tynecastle High School and Stenhouse Primary.