Trouble Come Find Me

All this menopausal woman wanted was to be a rock goddess…

One night, wine taken, a singer-songwriter whose career is on the rocks pitches a show to an arts festival. To her horror, they agree to stage it. Despite impressions, she hasn’t yet written a word of the ‘breath-taking piece of musical theatre inspired by heroines of folksong’.

Thus begins a desperate scramble to create it. Laundry piles up, hot flushes rise like a tsunami and, as the kids beg for anything other than pasta, her life starts to unravel. Along the way, the true events are revealed behind one of the most popular ballads of all time, ‘Frankie and Johnny’.

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