This Is Not A Pity Memoir

What happens when your partner&nbsp;of twenty years suddenly believes&nbsp;you're nothing but a stranger?&nbsp; What do you do when your&nbsp;history together is gone? How do you prove you're not&nbsp;an imposter in your own life?&nbsp; When the partner of Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Abi Morgan abruptly collapsed from a mysterious illness, doctors were concerned that he would not survive. Then, six months later, Jacob woke from his coma, to the delight and relief of his family and friends--except this proved to be anything but a Hollywood ending. Because to Jacob, the woman standing at his bedside, who had cared for him all these months, was not his partner. Not his children's mother. Not the woman he loved. Sure, she looked like his Abi, but this was an imposter, living someone else's life. Finding herself dropped into a real-life night-mare seemingly ripped from the pages of a thriller, Abi must find a way to hang on to not only their past but also their future together, before it slips away from them both. With grace, an irresistible sense of humor and refreshingly raw honesty, This Is Not a Pity Memoir grapples with a journey through fear and redemption few should have to face. What do you do when you&nbsp;are losing your love?&nbsp; You don't write a pity memoir.&nbsp; You write a love story.&nbsp;

This Is Not a Pity Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Morgan, Abi

Professionals & Academics

Harper Paperbacks

What happens when your partner of twenty years suddenly believes you’re nothing but a stranger? 
What do you do when your history together is gone? 
How do you prove you’re not an imposter in your own life? 
When the partner of Emmy Award–winning screenwriter Abi Morgan abruptly collapsed from a mysterious illness, doctors were concerned that he would not survive. Then, six months later, Jacob woke from his coma, to the delight and relief of his family and friends—except this proved to be anything but a Hollywood ending. Because to Jacob, the woman standing at his bedside, who had cared for him all these months, was not his partner. Not his children’s mother. Not the woman he loved. Sure, she looked like his Abi, but this was an imposter, living someone else’s life. 
Finding herself dropped into a real-life night-mare seemingly ripped from the pages of a thriller, Abi must find a way to hang on to not only their past but also their future together, before it slips away from them both. With grace, an irresistible sense of humor and refreshingly raw honesty, This Is Not a Pity Memoir grapples with a journey through fear and redemption few should have to face. 
What do you do when you are losing your love? 
You don’t write a pity memoir. 
You write a love story.

Harper

Sleeping Around is by four top British playwrights from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales: Mark Ravenhill, Hilary Fannin, Stephen Greenhorn and Abi Morgan
 Sleeping Around is about love and sex in Britain as we approach the millennium. In a dozen scenes of likely and unlikely connections, two actors (Sophie Stanton and John Lloyd Fillingham) play a variety of couples whose ordinary lives erupt in extraordinary moments.

Sleeping Around (Modern Plays)

Ravenhill, Mark

Greenhorn, Stephen

Fannin, Hilary

Humor & Entertainment

Methuen Drama

'That is the story of our beginning. And this is the story of...the end' Lovesong is the story of one couple, told from two different points in their lives - as young lovers in their 20s and as worldly companions looking back on their relationship. Their past and present selves collide in this haunting and beautiful tale of togetherness. All relationships have their ups and downs; the optimism of youth becomes the wisdom of experience. Love is a leap of faith.

Lovesong (Modern Plays)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Inspired by the memoir The Mistress Contract by She and He For 30 years he has provided her with a home and an income, while she provides mistress services’ All sexual acts as requested, with suspension of historical, emotional, psychological disclaimers.’ They first met at university and then lost touch. When they met again twenty years later, they began an affair when She a highly educated, intelligent woman with a history of involvement in the feminist movement asked her wealthy lover to sign the remarkable document that outlines their unconventional lifestyle: The Mistress Contract. Was her suggestion a betrayal of all that she and the women of her generation had fought for? Or was it brave, honest, and radical? Then on a small recorder that fit in her purse this extraordinary couple began to tape their conversations about their relationship, conversations that took place while travelling, over dinner at home and in restaurants, on the phone, even in bed. Based on reams of tape recordings made over their 30 year relationship, The Mistress Contract is a remarkable document of this unconventional couple, and the contract that kept them bound together to this day. Abi Morgan's plays have been widely performed at theatres across the country, including Donmar Warehouse, Traverse Theatre and Hampstead Theatre. Her critically acclaimed drama My Fragile Heart was recently screened on ITV. Her plays published by Oberon include Splendour, Tiny Dynamite, 27 and Lovesong. Morgan was the scriptwriter for BBC prime-time drama The Hour and was nominated for a BAFTA award for Best Original Screenplay for her Margaret Thatcher biopic, The Iron Lady.

The Mistress Contract (Oberon Modern Plays)

Oberon Books

The first collection of plays from multi-award-winning playwright and screenwriter Abi Morgan, whose film credits include the screenplays for The Iron Lady, Shame, The Invisible Woman, and the upcoming Sufragette. This book includes six of Morgan's acclaimed early plays: Skinned, Tiny Dynamite, Splendour, Tender, Lovesong, and 27.

Abi Morgan: Plays One: Tiny Dynamite; Splendour; Tender; Lovesong; 27 (Oberon Modern Playwrights)

In the drawing room of the Presidential Palace, a Western photojournalist awaits the return of the dictator. She is here to take his portrait. The dictator's wife, her best friend, and an interpreter wait with her. All four women harbor secrets and suspicions. All four are in danger. A devastating play that allows a glimpse into the minds of four women as their world turns.

Splendour (Oberon Modern Plays)

A play about decadence, desire and dictatorship. Inside a beautiful state residence on the edge of an Eastern European city, four women wait. They talk Toy Story 2, Prada handbags, chilli vodka...Anything. For outside, as snow is falling, civil war looms ever nearer.

Splendour

Tiny Dynamite: when memory takes hold, when chaos takes over and when the electricity between us becomes overwhelming. An impossible love story is given a second chance and three scorched characters are about to learn that lightning does strike twice.

Tiny Dynamite (Oberon Modern Plays)

Lovesong intertwines a couple in their 20s with the same man and woman a lifetime later. Their past and present selves collide in this haunting and beautiful tale of togetherness. All relationships have their ups and downs; the optimism of youth becomes the wisdom of experience. Love is a leap of faith.

Lovesong (Oberon Modern Plays)

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