England in the 1950s. Celia, desperate for distraction, fills her time with tennis and gin; Charles, a pathologist, is buried in his work among the living and the dead; and their gifted son, Holly, is having his first lessons on the piano and in life. Two years after the playwright’s death Simon Gray’s 1999 success receives a major revival at the Donmar Warehouse one of London’s best known and most successful theatres and is published in this new edition by Nick Hern Books