Turned Out Nice Again
Synopsis
Deborah Tyler-Bennett’s collection of stories draws deeply on the tradition of the music halls and variety. These stories chronicle the lives of a linked group of characters in the East Midlands in the heyday of musical comedy. Alf and Shirl, Vi, Cooper and Bean ("the boys most likely to…â€) Beryl, and the redoubtable Grandwem are all expertly drawn and brought to life in these pages, their trials and triumphs, tragedies and tribulations.
Starting out in wartime Mansfield, we follow Beryl’s development, intertwined with the stories of the other protagonists, in their box-and-cox, hand-to-mouth,precarious existence as entertainers in wartime, and a whole host of minor characters who provide both context and bitter-sweet humour, even including a budgie called George Formby.
Starting out in wartime Mansfield, we follow Beryl’s development, intertwined with the stories of the other protagonists, in their box-and-cox, hand-to-mouth,precarious existence as entertainers in wartime, and a whole host of minor characters who provide both context and bitter-sweet humour, even including a budgie called George Formby.
Author's Biography
Deborah Tyler-Bennett is a poet and former winner of the MacDiarmid Prize. Her previous collections include "Clark Gable in Mansfield" and "Revudeville" and she has held numerous residencies and bursaries, leading workshops and readings at festivals as far apart as Lowdham, Hay, and Callender.
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