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JACK KENT
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Banana Boat To Stockholm Game Husband And Wife Posthumous SuccessBanana Boat To Stockholm
Synopsis:
Hubert J. Hunter and Robert Stevenson were rivals at school and over Diana. When Diana married Robert, Hubert left town for London and became a millionaire tycoon. Back after 23 years to visit his sick mother, they meet again at a hastily convened reception for Hubert from the Mayor. During the one evening Hubert is staying, old rivalries are played out, ending with Hubert, failing to persuade Diana to go with him, taking their susceptible eighteen year old daughter, Gail, instead.
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New Theatre Publications (1998) 978-1840941289
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Synopsis:
Sue and Paul, married, arrive home with Mark, a long ago school and university friend of Paul's they have bumped into in Whitehall. They talk. Mark is Foreign Office, has been abroad several years and is surprised when Sue and Paul reveal they have and love to play sex games with friends and strangers. They persuade a reluctant Mark to play one with Sue as a pick-up, Paul leaving them alone. Sue expertly draws Mark into enjoying the game which ends with them in bed but, in the morning, wanting more, he is surprised by Sue's answer.
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New Theatre Publications (1997) 978-1840940992
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Synopsis:
Frances and Eric, married, but not to each other, arrive at Frances's flat at the end of a party game where the wives put their keys in a bowl and go home with whoever takes them out. Not quite so drunk now, they begin to talk. . . of the lives of their group as if trying to justify this game. . . slowly edging, in spite of their underlying misgivings, towards the inevitable moment when they move to the bedroom.
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New Theatre Publications (1997) 978-1840940985
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Synopsis:
alice, daughter annabel, son Derek and his wife, Pamela, arrive home from the funeral of alice's husband. andrew, solicitor, reads the will later and, attracted to annabel, offers to help with insurance claims. In a room where the husband spent most evenings alone, he finds note books which read like a pornographic novel. To help alice's finances, andrew suggests a friend of his publishes them as by anonymous. The book is a success, changes everyone's lives and leads to a proposal for alice from the film of the book's script writer, to whom she confesses she wrote it herself to try and get her husband back. . . though he obviously never read it.
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New Theatre Publications (1997) 978-1840940862
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