Missy

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<p>A rowdy, exuberant, badly behaved blast of an adventure,<i>Missy</i>begins in 1862 with Dol McQueen, nineteen-year-old flash girl and opium user, heading for a boom town in the American West. On the way she prevents a man from hanging himself only to discover he is a murderous pimp.</p><p>When he turns up later at the saloon where she has found work with some stolen goods he wants her to hide, Dol grabs the chance to start a new life and takes off into the wilderness with the loot and all hell in pursuit. Her alcoholic mother is an added burden on the mad, epic journey: can Dol save herself, her mother and their poisonous relationship?</p><p>Like her literary predecessors, Becky Sharpe and Moll Flanders, Dol is a flawed but irresistible anti-heroine, and<i>Missy</i>is an astounding debut.</p>

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<i>Missy</i>is the first novel by playwright Chris Hannan. His award-winning plays include<i>Shining Souls</i>,<i>The Evil Doers</i>,<i>Elizabeth Gordon Quinn</i>and<i>The Baby</i>;<i></i>and have been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre of Scotland and Sir Peter Hall at the Old Vic. In 2001/02 he was Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Drama at the University of Cambridge. He lives in Edinburgh.

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