Leave Taking
Leave Taking is a play by Winsome Pinnock, first staged at the Liverpool Playhouse Studio in 1987. Set in north London, it centres on Enid and her daughters Del and Viv, a family with Caribbean roots. The Bush Theatre revived it in 2018, and it is a GCSE English Literature set text.
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- Nick Hern Books, 1989
The first edition of Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock was published in London by Nick Hern Books in 1989. We track 2 editions.
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Who published the first edition of Leave Taking?
The first edition of Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock was published in London by Nick Hern Books in 1989.
How many editions of Leave Taking are there?
We track 2 editions of Leave Taking, including 1 first edition. Each has its own page with how to identify it.
Where these facts come from
- Leave Taking, Nick Hern Books, 2018 (nickhernbooks.co.uk)
- Winsome Pinnock, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
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