Mosquitoes Read online

  Mosquitoes first published as a paperback original in Great Britain in 2017 by Nick Hern Books Limited, The Glasshouse, 49a Goldhawk Road, London W12 8QP, in association with the National Theatre, London, by special arrangement with the Manhattan Theatre Club

  This ebook first published in 2017

  Mosquitoes copyright © 2017 Lucy Kirkwood

  Lucy Kirkwood has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work

  Cover photograph of Olivia Williams and Olivia Colman by David Stewart

  Designed and typeset by Nick Hern Books, London

  A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

  ISBN 978 1 84842 582 8 (print edition)

  ISBN 978 1 78001 922 2 (ebook edition)

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