Synopsis
Olive and the Bitter Herbs
Published by Samuel French Inc
3 Male 2 Female
She's a classic New York curmudgeon, at war with the world and in particular her next door neighbors
Her closed-off life is shaken by the appearance of a spectral male figure viewed through her living room mirror
A series of strange and outrageous coincidences reveals that the man in the mirror has intimate links to everyone in Olive's world and most revealingly to Olive, encouraging her that it's never too late to change one's life ...
"A colorful, sweet-and-sour Busch dish, laced with plenty of laughs" ~ The Associated Press
Characters ...
OLIVE - a woman in her seventies
WENDY - an energetic upbeat woman around fifty
ROBERT - an attractive man around sixty
TREY - Robert's partner, somewhat younger
SYLVAN - a dignified man in his seventies