The Sopranos
  • Published: 2 July 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099268741
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $39.99

The Sopranos

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Now a stage musical, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, adapted by Lee Hall (Billy Elliott, War Horse) and directed by Vicky Featherstone (Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre)

NOW A SELL-OUT PLAY: OUR LADIES OF PERPETUAL SUCCOUR

The choir from Our Lady of Perpetual Succour School for Girls is being bussed to the national finals in the big, big city. And it's an important day for The Sopranos - Orla, Kylah, (Ra)Chell, Amanda Konky and Fionnula (the Cooler) - pub-crawling, shoplifting and body-piercing being the top priorities. Then it's time to lose that competition - lose, because a nuclear sub has just anchored in the bay and, tonight, the Man Trap disco will be full of submariners on shore-leave. There is no time for delays. . .

But after the fifth bottle of alco-pop up the back of the bus it's clear that all is not going to plan, for anyone. The Sopranos are never going to be the same.

'Compassionate and riotously funny. It is a long time since I read a novel which had me rocking with laughter' -The Times
  • Published: 2 July 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099268741
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the author

Alan Warner

Alan Warner is the author of eight novels: Morvern Callar, These Demented Lands, The Sopranos, The Man Who Walks, The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven, The Stars in the Bright Sky, which was longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, The Deadman's Pedal and Their Lips Talk of Mischief. He is Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.

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Also by Alan Warner

Our Ladies
The Deadman's Pedal
The Stars in the Bright Sky
The Man Who Walks
These Demented Lands
Morvern Callar
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Praise for The Sopranos

More wild fun from the outrageously talented bright young thing

Scotsman

This is the most profound of Warner's books

Guardian

In a spill of vivid and corruscating language... Alan Warner has emerged as a writer of great inventiveness

Annie Proulx

Wonderful... humane, unique, a page-turner with a neat series of bombshells at the end

Daily Telegraph

Warner provides every nuance of the characters in a sustained tour de force... This is the most profound of Warner's books. His sense of place and atmosphere remains extraordinarily intense

Guardian

Wonderful... Humane, unique, a page-turner with a neat series of bombshells at the end

Daily Telegraph

Wickedly funny... Warner can combine literary style with go-anywhere demotic humour... Like St Trinians with condoms and male nudity

Independent
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