Born in 1977 in Bewdley, Yorkshire, to scientific parents – her father was managing director of a pharmaceutical company, her mother a researcher – Maxwell Martin read history at Liverpool University before attending the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. The dialogue is well-observed, sharp and funny. Public and private matters intertwine painfully as Raine takes a forensic view of what exactly constitutes the truth, how legal procedures can twist everyday language and experience. Maxwell Martin’s character, Kitty, is married to Edward (played by Ben Chaplin, fresh from Apple Tree Yard), a barrister who finds himself on the opposite side to a friend and fellow barrister in a rape case. Now she is back at the National Theatre, in Consent, a new play by Nina Raine, directed by her husband Roger Michell, who previously directed Raine’s lauded Tribes at the Royal Court. Maxwell Martin has scarcely been out of work since her first job after graduation, in The Little Foxes at the Donmar. An enviably versatile actress, Anna Maxwell Martin has won two BAFTAs (for Esther Summerson in Bleak House and N in Poppy Shakespeare) and been nominated for an Olivier (for Lyra). She has worn bonnets in Bleak House and North and South, a corset as Elizabeth Darcy in PD James's Death Comes to Pemberley ( pictured below) and a prison officer’s uniform in Accused, a gritty Jimmy McGovern story on television.
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Sexy, dangerous, and often touching, Beebo Brinkers search for love takes her from password-protected 1950s lesbian bars to the glamour and ritz of Hollywood and back. Overwhelmed with her discovery, Beebo is infatuated in turn with the vixen Mona Petry, the sweet femme Paula Ash, and the famous actress Venus Bogardus. (Book 1 in the Beebo Brinker Series) by Ann Bannon See Customer Reviews In the 1950s, Ann Bannon broke through the shame and isolation typically portrayed in lesbian pulps, offering instead women characters who embraced their sexuality. She never knew what she wanted-until she came to Greenwich Village and found the love that smolders in the shadows of the twilight world. Befriended by the gay Jack Mann, a father-figure with a weakness for runaways, Beebo sets out to find love. With Beebo Brinker, Bannon introduces the title character, a butch 17-year-old farm girl newly arrived in New York after she is driven from her Wisconsin home town for wearing drag to the State Fair. Unlike many writers of the period, however, Bannon broke through the shame and isolation typically portrayed in lesbian pulps, offering instead women characters who embrace their sexuality against great odds. Designated the "Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction" for authoring five landmark novels beginning in 1957, Ann Bannon's work defined lesbian fiction for the pre-Stonewall generation. The reader is forced to watch her character’s demise into reckless abandonment, lack of self preservation and thoughtlessness. Tris is emotionally fraught with guilt, anguish and loss and is not dealing with any of these issues. This novel focuses mainly on Tris, dealing with her actions and feelings from Divergent. Insurgent is a darker, more emotional and insightful counterpart to its primary novel Divergent. It is not long however before they are discovered by the Erudite’s and must seek assistance from the only allies they have left, the Factionless. The Amity live amongst the orchards and farms, just beyond the gates guarded by the Dauntless. Tobias, Tris, Marcus and Caleb travel with the remaining Abnegation to seek refuge with the Amity. It is literally like we turned over the last page of Divergent and ended up in the beginning of Insurgent. Insurgent takes off where Divergent left off. Yet if Tris wants to uncover the truth about her world, she must be stronger than ever….because more shocking choices and sacrifices lie ahead. Wracked by grief and guilt, she becomes ever more reckless as she struggles to accept her new future. Tris has survived a brutal attack on her former home and family. I can’t take back them back, and they are part of who I am. 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