{"product_id":"coram-boy-1","title":"Coram Boy","description":"\u003cp\u003eA heartbreaking tale of orphans, angels, murder and music - dramatised from the Whitbread Award-winning novel set in 18th-century England.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 18th-century Gloucestershire, the evil Otis Gardner preys on unmarried mothers, promising to take their babies (and their money) to Thomas Coram's hospital for foundling children. Instead, he buries the babies and pockets the loot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut Otis's downfall is set in train when his half-witted son Meshak falls in love with a young girl, Melissa, and rescues the unwanted son she has had with a disgraced aristocrat. The child is brought up in Coram's hospital, and proves to have inherited the startling musical gifts of his father - gifts that ultimately bring about his father's redemption and a heartbreaking family reunion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHelen Edmundson's adaptation of Jamila Gavin's award-winning novel, \u003cem\u003eCoram Boy\u003c\/em\u003e, was first performed at the National Theatre, London, in 2005. It won the Time Out Live Award for Best Play.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'\u003cstrong\u003eA rich and almost Gothic drama\u003c\/strong\u003e' \u003cem\u003e- Philip Pullman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 128 pages | Published October 2005\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63967119212893,"sku":"9781854598943","price":13.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9781854598943.jpg?v=1774352671","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/coram-boy-1","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}