Tamara Drewe

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Tamara Drewe
Author(s) Posy Simmonds
Website www.theguardian.com/books/series/tamara-drewe
Launch date24 September 2005
End date20 October 2007
Publisher(s) The Guardian

Tamara Drewe is a graphic novel [1] by Posy Simmonds. It first appeared as a weekly serial with a thirteen month run in The Guardian 's Review section. It's a modern reworking of Thomas Hardy's 1874 novel Far from the Madding Crowd .

Contents

The story was adapted into a feature film starring Gemma Arterton.

Plot

The story is set in Stonefield, a writer's retreat run by Beth and Nicholas Hardiman, where the novelist Glen Larson stays to find inspiration for his latest novel. Tamara Drewe, a young gossip columnist, has returned to her family home nearby. Her sexy looks have every man in the village falling for her. When she has a relationship with rock star Ben Sergeant she unknowingly inflames two teenage schoolgirl fans of his, Casey and Jody, who start to involve themselves in her affairs.

Publication history

The first episode appeared The Guardian on 17 September 2005, in the first Berliner-sized Saturday edition.

Collected editions

The complete work was published as a single volume with hardcover (Jonathan Cape, November 2007, ISBN   0-224-07816-X) and softcover editions (Mariner Books, October 2008, ISBN   0-547-15412-7; Jonathan Cape, September 2009, ISBN   0-224-07817-8). It has also been translated into French (Editions Denoël, October 2008, ISBN   2-207-26043-7), German (Reprodukt, January 2010, ISBN   978-3-941099-31-9), and Swedish (Wibom books, October 2011, ISBN   978-91-978213-4-6).

Awards

Tamara Drewe won the 2009 Prix de la critique. [2]

Film adaptation

The graphic novel has been adapted into a feature film starring Gemma Arterton and Dominic Cooper and directed by Stephen Frears. Momentum Pictures released the film in the UK on 10 September 2010. The film premièred at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2010 [3]

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References

  1. "Publishers Weekly: Tamara Drewe".
  2. Grands Prix de la Critique > 2000-2009, ACBD
  3. Higgins, Charlotte (May 17, 2010). "Tamara Drewe comic strip charms Cannes in film form". The Guardian . London.