Shelagh Delaney
Born 1939
From Salford Royal Hospital, England, United Kingdom · Nationality: United Kingdom · Writes fiction
Quotes
“The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.”
A Taste of Honey, Act 1 “I’m not frightened of the darkness outside. It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like.”
A Taste of Honey, Act 1 “Oh! I must take my shoes off. Huh! Hell hath no fury like a woman’s corns, has it?”
The Lion in Love, Act 1 “There aren’t enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.”
Sweetly Sings the Donkey “He didn’t play with his food anymore till it got cold; instead, down it went like fuel into a furnace keeping the ovens hot, and the energy at boiling point, as Tom hurtled through his life catching up with himself at last.”
Sweetly Sings the Donkey
Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Books by Shelagh Delaney in order
Books by Shelagh Delaney in the order they were published, from A Taste of Honey (1959) to Sweetly Sings the Donkey (1963).
