Margaret, eine unscheinbare Sekretärin, lernt per Anhalter Chris kennen - eine Engländerin mit zweifelhafter Vergangenheit. Als Chris bei einem Autounfall umkommt, schlüpft Margaret in deren Rolle. - Psychologischer Roman über die Wandlung einer Frau von der Fremdbestimmung zur Selbständigkeit.
Effie, who has lived in mental institutions since the age of thirteen, has been admitted to hospital with severe burns. Treating her is Dr Ruth Kovacs, who finds in Effie's extraordinary story of injustice and official callousness the key to her own suppressed anger and power. Taut and powerful, tender and often funny, Effie's Burning is an emotional switchback of a play, with a searing anger at its heart.-2 women