by Barry Unsworth (Author)
It is the late fourteenth century, a dangerous time beset by war and plague. Nicholas Barber, a young and wayward cleric, stumbles across a group of travelling players and compounds his sins by joining them. Yet the town where they perform reveals another drama: a young woman is to be hanged for the murder of a twelve-year-old boy. What better way to increase their takings than to make a new play, to enact the murder of Thomas Wells? But as the actors rehearse, they discover that the truth about the boy's death has yet to be revealed.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 05 Sep 1996
ISBN 10: 0140175741
ISBN 13: 9780140175745
Prizes: Shortlisted for Booker Prize for Fiction 1995.