A time to keep
By: David Edgar and Stephanie Dale
Contributors: Dale, Stephanie, author
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Drama; Social life and customs
Description: Set in Dorset in the summer of 1804, against the backdrop of the threatened Napoleonic invasion of Britain, 'A Time to Keep' inhabits terrain somewhere between Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, with its ambitious middle-classes, its garrison of eligible officers, and its impoverished low-lifes. Driving the plot is an unlikely but passionate romance between Mary, a well-born but feisty young woman, and Isaac, the youngest son of a family of notorious smugglers.
Notes: Previously issued in print: London: Nick Hern Books, 2007.