EXPLANATION OF THE SIZE
this is a play. the book concentrates on what is done and said, not in the way that someone leans over to get the morning paper. they dont waiste time. this book if performed would not be tiny, it would be a normal size play.

okay so i get in the car with the book and im all mad cause the price i thought insane for the book and my mom said "then take it back in there cause im not coming back" i said "no, i already ordered it, i might as well read it, i want it" and i start reading it in the car and then i get out of the car and walk out and my moms trying to talk to me. i am completly in this book, i dont hear much of anything.

lets just put it this way. ive never regreted buying that book and ive read it about 20 times or more. the reason that im here buying a new one is because during a move it was stolen and im here to read it yet again.
read the play, watch the movie and if your in england see the play if its still being shown.
beautiful thing will steal your heart.
reason behind the movies r rating.
okay its a really innocent movie in most parts.
its a love story between 2 boys but its also got another branch off because its the story of the boy "jamie" also connecting with his mother and her boyfriend.
with ste your seeing domestic abuse. ste is a teenage boy in the flat next to theirs thats being beaten by his father and brother.
with ste and leah your also seeing drugs, granted not in a pro kind of way though and its not a big part of the movie. its one scene and a small bit of another.
so in a way i guess the r rating is kind of deserved but there are so many movies that are pg 13 that have so much more than this in them.

Summary of Beautiful Thing Drama Version (Modern Plays)

"If ever a play had the bloom of youth on it, then it is Harvey's marvelous 'urban fairytale' about two schoolboys falling in love on a grim southeast London council estate ... The gaucheness, the rush of excitement, and the inarticulate tenderness of young love are beautifully captured in writing of great truth and delicacy. Only the most irrational of homophobes could fail to be moved by it."-Daily Telegraph

"Deliciously upbeat ... seldom has there been a play which so exquisitely and joyously depicts what it's like to be sixteen, in the first flush of love and full of optimism. Truly a most unusual and beautiful thing."-Guardian

"An unfakeably truthful portrait of adolescent self-discovery, showing sensitivity and fun pushing up like wild flowers through the concrete crevices of a Thamesmead estate. This is the most heartening working-class comedy since A Taste of Honey."-Independent on Sunday

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