Crocodile Soup
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Indelible, Miraculous
The Poetry Cure (edited with Cynthia Fuller)
Apology for Absence
Sudden Collapses in Public Places
Sauce
Modern Goddess
Small Beauties
Plays
The Taxi Drivers Daughter (Novel Adaption by Live Theatre)
Manifesto for a New City (Northern Stage)
Eating the Elephant and Other Plays (New Writing North)
Cold Calling (Methuen Plays, Live Theatre Anthology)
Attachments (Live Theatre)
The Last Post (Live Theatre/Durham Elements Group)
Doughnuts Like Fanny’s (Quondam Theatre Company & Sandra Hunt)
Personal Belongings (Live Theatre, Edinburgh Festival)
Venetia Love Goes Netting (Live Theatre)
The Night Tom Jones Came to Barrow (The Ashton Group, Barrow)
Eating the Elephant (The Ashton Group, Barrow)
The Women Who Painted Ships (BBC Radio 4, Live Theatre)
Black Diamonds (Quondam Theatre Company)
Head of Steel (Quondam Theatre Company)
Rafferty’s Café (Quondam Theatre Company)
The Cure (The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield)
Mother of Invention (Northumberland Youth Theatre)
Gone with the Lettuce (Northumberland Youth Theatre)
Growing Pains (Tyne & Wear Theatre in Education)
Radio Plays and TV
The Waiting Room (BBC Radio 4)
The Street (BBC Radio 4 Live Broadcast)
Appointments (BBC Radio 4 Women’s Hour)
Cold Calling (Tyne Tees TV/Live Theatre)
Posties (BBC Radio 4 Women’s Hour)
The Black Path (Radio Three)
‘Vermin’ (BBC Tyne Online)
Sealife (BBC Radio 4 Philosophers/Think Tank)
Scraping the Sky (BBC Radio 4 Five Monologues)
Home Truths (BBC Radio 4 Write Out Loud)
She Hadda Fly (BBC Radio 4)
Snapping (BBC Radio 4 Write Out Loud)
Table of Contents
The First Letter
A Vision In The Stuffed Bird Room
My Mother Told Me Not To Speak To Strangers
Origins
Incidental Thought
Family Life
Someone To Look After Me
The Ruination Of Jean’s Legs
Eva
The Attic
The Kingdom Of Leaves
Wooing
George Goes To The Crocodiles
Trouble With The Rubbish
Letters From Africa
Other Communications
Five Shillings
The Farmer Wants A Wife
Reprieve
The Second Letter
A Conspiracy Of Idleness
Learning To Dance
Harry
Frank
Eva And The Cream Bun
Dusty Springfield
The Third Letter
Christmas
George Comes Home
The Lost Au Pair
Frank Disagrees
Learning To Communicate
History Lessons
Harry
Swimming
Other Rivers
A Letter From Mabel
The Dunkirk Spirit
Becoming A Horse
Shopping With Eva
Doctor Diamond And The Gullible Heart
Frank
Carmen Leaves
What I Thought
The Cotton Club
First Attempts
Rosa Van Durk
Ward One Hundred
The Exorcism
Eva Takes Me Dancing
Daily Petals
A Weekend Break
The Fourth Letter
The Ornamental Shrub
Bad News
The Navigator’s Compass
Trouble With My Face
Sibling Rivalry
The Art Of Disobedience
A Box Of Chocolates
Cramming
Eva’s Confession
God Comes To Stay
Jean’s Last Letter
Eileen Visits And Frank Turns Orange
The Coast Road
More Trouble
Visitors
Leaving
Betty
More Visitors
Henry And The Five-Pound Note
Coming Home
Escape
George Builds A Boat
Finding My Voice
Closer
My First Date
Note To Myself
The Disappearance
Catastrophe
A Good Spirit
Mr Berry
The Post
A Working Life
Gwenny
The Debt
Frank
Frank Comes Down From The Attic
Last Days
Cameron
Ascension
A Death In The House
Jean
Gwenny’s Question
The Last Train
Harry
The Letter