Sarah Waters's story of illicit love and everyday heroism takes us from a dazed and shattered post-war Britain back into the heart of the Blitz, towards the secrets that are hidden there. Playwright Hattie Naylor has created a thrilling and theatrically inventive adaptation of a great modern novel.

Hattie Naylor has won several national and international awards for her plays and has had a number of her stories broadcast on Radio 4, including Mathilde, Solaris, J'Accuse and The Making of Ivan the Terrible. Theatre and opera work include Mother Savage for Travelling Light, the opera Odysseus Unwound for Tete a Tete, The Nutcracker for Theatre Royal Bath, Ivan and the Dogs for the Soho Theatre, Going Dark for Fuel and Bluebeard for Gallivant. She also teaches scriptwriting on the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Sarah Waters (1966) is an acclaimed Welsh novelist, best known for writing historical fiction featuring lesbian protagonists. Inspired by her academic research into Victorian Britain, Waters's first novel, Tipping the Velvet (1998), was awarded the Betty Trask Award in 1999 and shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Her novels Fingersmith (2002) and The Night Watch (2006) have both been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize, with The Night Watch marking a departure from her typical Victorian era setting. Waters's other novels include: Affinity (1999), The Little Stranger (2009) and The Paying Guests (2014).