Book description
Judy's my mom. It's an understatement to say she's a bit of a
hippy. I mean who else but a New Ager calls their baby 'Philosophy
Rainbow'? I try to go by 'Sophie'. Sophie and Calliope have never been
to school. Their mum ran away from home when she was seventeen to join
the New Age movement and the girls were raised in a series of ashrams,
communes and impromptu raves. When Sophie gets ill, they return to
Birmingham - a strange new world where meditation and tree-hugging are
replaced with maths homework and TV and the grandmother they have
never met. And it's against this bewildering new backdrop - the
normality she's always longed for - that Sophie must come to terms
with her mortality. Lucy Caldwell's Notes to Future Self opened at the
Birmingham Repertory Theatre in February 2011.
Lucy Caldwell was born in Belfast in 1981. She read English at
Queens' College, Cambridge and is a graduate of Goldsmith's MA in
Creative & Life Writing. Her debut novel Where They Were Missed
(2006), was described in the Independent as 'beautifully paced,
evocative and unfaltering ... an object lesson in balancing the personal
and the political'. An award winning playwright, she is currently under
commission to write for the main stage of the Royal Court Theatre.
