Wise Children (CSA Word Recording) (FSG Classics)

by Angela Carter and Emma Rice

Emma Rice

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In Brixton, Nora and Dora Chance - twin chorus girls born and bred south of the river - are celebrating their 75th birthday. Over the river in Chelsea, their father and greatest actor of his generation Melchior Hazard turns 100 on the same day. As does his twin brother Peregrine. If, in fact, he's still alive. And if, in truth, Melchior is their real father after all...


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Wise Children is adapted for the stage from Angela Carter's last novel about a theatrical family living in South London. It centres around twin chorus girls, Nora and Dora Chance, whose lives are brimming with mystery, illegitimacy

  • ISBN10 1786826917
  • ISBN13 9781786826916
  • Publish Date 17 October 2018 (first published 13 June 1991)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Imprint Oberon Books Ltd
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 120
  • Language English