The Wicked Lady
by Magdalen King-hall, Bryony Lavery

Name: The Wicked Lady
Brand: Magdalen King-hall
SKU: 9781840029406
Rating: 4.25 (7 reviews)

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Highlights

Medium Cast

Female

Male

Adaptation Historical

What readers are saying

Readers find The Wicked Lady to be a gripping read, especially those familiar with the famous film adaptation. Many appreciate the opportunity to explore the original story in more depth.

Gripping storylineInteresting original storyMay appeal more to film fans

Synopsis

An stage adaptation of the original novel, The Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton by Magdalen King-Hall.

Lady Barbara Skelton is beautiful, wild and truly wicked.

Forced into a respectable marriage with a man she can’t love, she soon becomes bored and embarks on a secret life of gambling, highway robbery and murder.

But she’s playing a dangerous game.

Shadowed by betrayal, threatened by revenge, can Barbara escape her wicked life?

Or will she be abandoned to her terrible fate?

The Wicked Lady is in production until 25th July 2009 at the New Vic Theatre (Newcastle-under-Lyme), directed by Theresa Heskins.

ThemesKing-Hall, Magdalen , 1904-1971 PR6062.A825 W53 2009