In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises)

Nina Segal

• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781783193134
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781783193141
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: British Drama
• Index: Literature

A baby cries. A bottle breaks. A window smashes. Over the course of one night, mum and dad try to still their screaming infant – but as the hours grow longer, the world becomes elastic around them, and the horrors that scar our planet crash in to the baby's room.Should they ever have brought this child into such a wounded world?

1. IN THE NIGHT TIME

MAN:	Somewhere –
	not here,
	but somewhere –
	it is night time.
	Proper night time,
	proper middle-of-the-night
	night time.
WOMAN:	Somewhere,
	not here,
	but somewhere,
	there is a room and
	the room has
	blank white walls and
	a window,
	looking out onto
	dirt or
	fields or
	McDonald’s.
MAN:	Somewhere there’s
	a burning building and
	somewhere else,
	a snowstorm.
WOMAN:	Somewhere there’s a woman and
	somewhere close, a man.
MAN:	Somewhere a body falls six floors from
	an office window
	to the street below.
WOMAN:	On hearing the news,
	a colleague will googl...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Characters
• 1. In the Night Time
• 2. The Woman and the Man