Author: Sandi ToksvigPublisher: Little Brown GBR
ISBN: 9780316860970
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Sandi Toksvig was eight years old when she landed in America in the summer of 1966. She arrived with her English mother, Danish father, and her ten-year-old brother who had seen too many films and expected to be gunned down in the street. Switching from school to school, she eventually settled at Mamaroneck High and at the tender age of thirteen fell in love. With the theatre.The school production that year was The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder. Sandi was one of three girls chosen to play Gladys Antrobus, and before long Gladys One, Gladys Two and Gladys Three had become firm friends. By the time of the play's performance, the 'Gladys Society' had stretched to twelve, to include every female member in the company and the drama teacher Miss Frey. Thirty years on, Sandi decided to return to the US to discover what happened to her fellow 'Gladyses' and, in the process, rediscover America. Part travelogue, part memoir, The Gladys Society is the often hilarious and sometimes moving account of her journey.
