
by JanMark (Author)
Will is a glover's son, who spends his days fitting gloves to pretty hands in his father's busy shop, and apart from the odd poem he's never before put pen to paper. But the good people of Stratford require a play, and with his pal Adrian Croft he finds himself responsible for putting one on the stage. Will's imagination works overtime as he struggles to find parts for his motley selection of friends and neighbours: school boys who refuse to wear skirts, Adam of Muscovy, Wat the plasterer with a chip on his shoulder and many others. Thank goodness for trusty Adrian - a friend and director whose belief in their endeavours stands firm. Together they manage to assemble an unlikely company of amateurs - schoolboys and workmen. Fortune My Foe is the result, and Will hears the heady sound of applause for the first time...
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Published: 14 Aug 2003
ISBN 10: 0340860979
ISBN 13: 9780340860977
Children’s book age: 12+ Years
Book Overview: Jan Mark's first novel, Thunder and Lightnings won the Penguin/Guardian award for unpublished manuscripts in 1974, and was later awarded the Carnegie Medal. She won a second Carnegie Medal for Handles , and the Angel Literary Award for Zeno was here and Aquarius . Her book The Eclipse of the Century was shortisted for the 2000 Guardian Fiction Prize.