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Explores four women in their 50s embarking on their first OE. … Noeline, a nurse, travels to London and Paris after caring for years for her terminally ill husband. Ruth, a farmer's wife, ups and leaves after finding her husband is having an affair. Jean, a librarian, travels after being made redundant. Frankie, a teacher, wins Lotto, ditches her husband and decides to reinvent herself. …Hall has structured the play -- first aired on radio -- as four monologues. Each woman communicates her story by different means. Frankie's is by phone calls home, Ruth writes a novel, Jean writes a diary and Noeline by e-mail. |
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