A Taste Of Honey Shelagh Delaney by Shelagh Delaney 9781472583772, 1472583779 instant download after payment.

A Taste of Honey became a sensational theatrical success when first produced in London by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company. It was made into a highly acclaimed film in 1961. 

The play is about the adolescent Jo & her relationships with those about her - her irresponsible, roving mother Helen & her mum's newly acquired drunken husband, the black sailor who leaves her pregnant & Geoffrey the homosexual art student who moves in to help with the baby. It is also about Jo's unshakeable optimism throughout her trials. 

This story of a mother & daughter relationship set in working class Manchester continues to enthral new generations of readers & audiences.

Now established as a modern classic, this comic & poignant play by a then nineteen-year-old working-class Lancashire girl was praised at its London premiere in 1958 by Graham Greene as having "all the freshness of Mr Osborne's Look Back in Anger & a greater maturity."

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Shelagh Delaney was born in Salford, Lancashire. She is most well-known for A Taste of Honey, for which she won the Foyle's New Play Award & the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. She wrote the screenplay for the film version with Tony Richardson & was awarded the British Film Academy Award & the Robert Flaherty Award. Her other screenplays include The White Bus & Charley Bubbles, for which she won the Writers' Guild Award. She has also written for television & radio & has had a collection of short stories published. She died in 2011.