The Amazingly Astonishing Story

Author: Lucy Gannon

ISBN: 9781781725986

Publication Date: 24 November 2020

Publisher: Seren

Format: Hardback, 208x135 mm, 272 pages

Language: English

Deeply funny and deeply sad, this memoir is a frank look into a child’s tumultuous mind, a classic story of a working-class girl growing up in the sixties. Her Catholic upbringing, a father torn between daughter and new wife, her irreverent imagination and determination to enjoy life, mean this really is an amazing story (including meeting the Beatles).

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Author Biography:

After leaving the army Gannon became a social worker and then a nurse before turning to writing. She is the author of 8 plays and 18 tv dramas or series, including 'The Best of Men', 'Soldier Soldier', 'Peak Practice', 'Bramwell', and 'Dad'. She won the Richard Burton Award for New Playwrights and has been writer in residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Gannon is currently developing scripts and mentoring writers for BBC Wales and contemplating two further volumes of memoir. She lives on the coast, in the far west of Ceredigion.