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Outline of Play
Frank Gibbons, just demobbed (1919), settles in Clapham with his wife Ethel, their children, Reg, Queenie and Vi, Ethel's mother, Mrs Flint and Frank's sister, Sylvia.
They find that one of Frank's army pals, Bob Mitchell, is their next-door neighbour, and his son Billy becomes Queenie's faithful admirer.
The respectable working-class home with its commonness, its sterling qualities and its humours is vividly depicted.
Vi is first to marry, then Reg. Queenie runs away with a married man. Reg and his wife are killed in a car smash. Billy brings the repentant Queenie home as his wife.
In the end, with another war looming, Queenie joins Billy in India, leaving her son in the care of her still indomitable parents.
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