{"product_id":"9781780012421","title":"When You Cure Me (NHB Modern Plays)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA painful - and painfully funny - play about being very young and in love - and coping with serious illness at the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRachel and Peter are seventeen. They have been going out for six months. It's love's young dream. Then Rachel gets ill - seriously ill. She doesn't want her mum to fuss; she doesn't want Alice to pretend she's her best friend; and she certainly doesn't want Alice's boyfriend telling bad jokes at her bedside. The only person she wants is Peter, but Peter doesn't know what it is that he wants.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen You Cure Me\u003c\/i\u003e premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'In one of the year's finest pieces of new writing... a compassionate, gripping portrait of a fledgling relationship that is asked to bear more than many well-established marriages' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'painstakingly honest... acutely observant of the petty rivalries and jealousies that sickness provokes' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'[has] a merciless precision... a brave piece of writing that, with its damaged and angry heroine, unflinchingly shows us not a vision of saintly suffering, but a far more engagingly human struggle for survival' \u003ci\u003e The Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hern, Nick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152189243632,"sku":"9781780012421","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780012421_p0.jpg?v=1769890898","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780012421","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}