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Susannah York to star in the National Tour of a new play based on Rosamunde
Pilcher’s international best seller The Shell Seekers.
The international best seller by Rosamunde Pilcher, THE SHELL SEEKERS propelled it’s author to the top of the international best-seller lists and has sold over 5 million copies world-wide. It now comes to the British stage, adapted by husband and wife team Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham. |
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An evocative and passionate modern day classic, this heart-rending story of a
modern English family is set in London and Cornwall between World War II and the
present. It is the story of Penelope Keeling, her family and the secrets, passions
and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. Recuperating after a
heart-attack, Penelope takes time to look back on her life, enjoy time in her home
and takes comfort in a painting done by her father. Having discovered the true worth of
their grandfather’s work her children are keen to gain their inheritance early but
Penelope has other ideas and is determined to restore peace to her life and put her life
in order before anyone gets what is due to them. It is a story of love, courage and determination. It is also a story of The Shell Seekers - a painting and ancestral legacy which threatens to shatter the family’s very existence. |  |
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Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham have been writing together for over thirty years. The husband and wife team created UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS, FOREVER GREEN and NANNY. Charlotte Bingham is an international author with titles that include To Hear a Nightingale, The Chestnut Tree and its sequel, the current best-seller The Wind off the Sea. Terence Brady is a novelist and historian, whose books include Fight Against Slavery, Point to Pointing and Rehearsal.
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| The Shell Seekers is produced by Nick Brooke Ltd, Kenneth Wax Ltd and Lee Menzies Ltd. | |||