Laura Wade's play is about grief, loss, family and the environment, and how we deal with the inevitability of death.

This Student Edition contains a commentary by Sophie Bush, Principal Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, which explores the following themes in relation to the play:

* environmentalism
* changing attitudes towards death and grief
* family conflict
* motherhood

In addition, it looks at the production history (including major productions in the UK, US, Europe and Mexico) and the critical reception.

The edition includes an exclusive interview with Laura Wade.

Laura Wade is an Olivier-award winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include Posh; Home, I'm Darling (Olivier Award for Best New Comedy 2019); Breathing Corpses; Other Hands; and adaptations of Jane Austen's The Watsons and Sarah Waters's Tipping the Velvet.

Dr Sophie Bush is Associate Head at the Sheffield Creative Industries Institute, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She is the editor of Methuen Drama Student Editions of Our Country's Good (2020), Top Girls (2018) and My Mother Said I Never Should (2015), and a GCSE Student Guide to My Mother Said I Never Should (2015). She is also the author of The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker (2013) and co-author of The Theatre of Laura Wade (2025).