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Things don''t change no matter how much you want them to. You try, you run away, you make things new but they''re not. It''s just the same old shit covered in lipstick.

Maud, a woman on the run from her damaged past, has sheltered Cynthia from the outside world for the last few years. But while Cynthia is a recluse, living for their dressing-up box, their fairy tales and Shirley Bassey on YouTube, Maud meets Dennis, a security guard at her office. As Cynthia clings, Maud begins to dream of escaping their isolated and claustrophobic world.

Annie Jenkins'' debut play In Lipstick gives savage, funny and heartfelt voice to two women trapped in a fractured city, not quite knowing how to love each other.

In Lipstick

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 17 January 2019
      ISBN-13 9780571354566
      978-0571354566
      ISBN-10 0571354564
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      Poetry

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Things don''t change no matter how much you want them to. You try, you run away, you make things new but they''re not. It''s just the same old shit covered in lipstick.

      Maud, a woman on the run from her damaged past, has sheltered Cynthia from the outside world for the last few years. But while Cynthia is a recluse, living for their dressing-up box, their fairy tales and Shirley Bassey on YouTube, Maud meets Dennis, a security guard at her office. As Cynthia clings, Maud begins to dream of escaping their isolated and claustrophobic world.

      Annie Jenkins'' debut play In Lipstick gives savage, funny and heartfelt voice to two women trapped in a fractured city, not quite knowing how to love each other.

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