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The White Carnation

by R.C Sherriff · 2015

ISBN: 1783195770 9781783195770

Category: Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Page count: 136

“There have been strange rumours about this house. Although it was in a state of ruin, lights were seen in the windows every Christmas Eve: music was heard: voices and laughter...”<br><br>The first production in sixty years of R. C. Sherriff's supernatural drama.<br><br>Christmas Eve, 1951. As Britain rebuilds itself after the war, John Greenwood has it all – a successful business, a beautiful house and an aristocratic wife. But as he bids farewell to the guests leaving his annual Christmas party, a gust of wind slams the front door shut, starting a chain of events that makes him doubt everything he has ever known...<br><br>From the writer of one of the 20th century's most acclaimed plays, Journey’s End, The White Carnation is a ghostly tale of one man’s chance to do things differently.<br>