Nell Dunn

Nell Dunn

Nell Dunn (born 1936) is an English playwright, screenwriter, and author.

Grandmothers Talking Nell

Nell Dunn interviewed ten grandmothers, all from different social backgrounds, and talked to them about what it feels like to be a grandmother and what it felt like to be a grandchild. The interviewees range from Ursula, who lives in a country house, to Joy, who lives on a council estate. The author...

È la vita, Joy (Bittersweet) (Italian Edition)

Londra, anni Sessanta. Joy, detta Fiorellino, porta una finta coda di cavallo bionda, ha gambe magre su scarpe di camoscio dai tacchi alti, il corpo esile, i seni grossi. Non esce di casa senza le sue ciglia finte e i riccioli alla Cleopatra sistemati dietro le orecchie. A vederla passeggiare per st...

Home Death (Nick Hern Books)

Inspired by real-life stories, including the playwright’s own experience of the death of her partner. A profoundly moving study of palliative care in the UK and how we would like to spend our last days. Dares to ask the questions that many of us ignore, and provides hope for all of us to choose and ...

Up the Junction

Nell Dunn's scenes of London life, as it was lived in the early Sixties in the industrial slums of Battersea, have few parallels in contemporary writing. The exuberant, uninhibited, disparate world she found in the tired old streets and under the railway arches is recaptured in these closely linked ...

Steaming (Plays)

Full-length play set in a run-down public baths in London's East End, where five naked women meet to bathe and share their troubles. It won the 1981 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy when it opened in London. 5 women: 1) Josie, sensuous, uneducated hedonist who wants a man to take care of ...

My Silver Shoes

This sequel to Poor Cow presents the same characters 30 years on. You are old, Joy tells her mother Gladys for the 100th time, though Glad is unlikely to take any notice. She may be 80, but she wants to find a man with a bit of life in him.

Cancer Tales by Nell Dunn (2002-12-30)

Grandmothers talking to Nell Dunn

Up the Junction

Poor Cow

Different Drummers

The Incurable

Tear His Head off His Shoulders

The Only Child: A Simple Story of Heaven and Hell

Poor Cow

Tear His Head off His Shoulders