No Time to Lose
Published in March 1998
Book
Hardback
212 pages
978-1-85776-292-1 (ISBN)
Description
No Time to Lose is an unusual romance with a powerful and poignant ending. Set in the 1950s in London, Manchester, Belgium and Paris, it is the story of Ginette, a devout young Catholic girl, and David, a young writer and doubting Protestant. In following the course of their doomed love, David Stringer, himself a playwright, includes telling backstage scenes, visits to Belgium and an English public school, and wonderful portraits of landladies, antagonistic relatives and, most notably, a delightful French urchin. This haunting tale will totally transport the reader to those days of half a century ago when life was different but just as precious.
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Person
David Stringer appeared on the London stage before joining the BBC, broadcasting over a thousand times and adapting numerous books as radio serials. His television play Touch Wood, which starred Alec McCowen, was later filmed as Nearly a Nasty Accident. His previous publications are Plays for Radio and Television, The Yesterday Man, Who Wants Crackers at Christmas and The Glass Rainbow. He lives in Neuvic, France.