Great Expectations: a Twenty-First-Century Adaptation

by Tom Crowley

I can't forget her...sometimes, thinking about everything I have to live up to, trying to be this new person, its too much. The only way I can make sense of it all is the thought that somewhere down the line, this new life might somehow bring us together.

In this modern day re-imagining of Charles Dicken's classic story, Pip is a boy from a council estate with no money, and no hope for the future. His mother, widow Jo Gargery, is a police officer struggling to provide for herself and her son. Before long, Pip's life is changed forever after he meets mysterious fugitive Magwycz, the beautiful but troubled Estella and the fearsome, wounded Miss Havisham. Pip's whirlwind adventure takes him to the heights of big city success – and into more danger than he could have ever imagined.

Catapulting Dicken's beloved characters into the 21st century, Tom Crowley's adaption captures all the humour, humanity and adventure of the original with its timeless themes of unrequited love, the divide between the rich and the poor, and what it means to be 'good'.

This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at The Old Red Lion Theatre, London in December 2017.

120 pages, Paperback

Published January 2, 2018

About the author

Tom Crowley graduated from Marquette and Johns Hopkins Universities. He served as an infantry officer in the Vietnam War where he was wounded and decorated for his service.

He worked in Asia as a Foreign Service Officer and with GE spending time in every country in north east and south east Asia. Retired in Bangkok he worked for fourteen years as a full time volunteer with the Mercy Centre, an NGO that helps protect and educate street kids. Tom’s passion is playing pool and, when not otherwise busy, he will be found along side a pool table near his home in Kensington, Maryland.

Tom's latest book is "Mercy's Heroes" telling the story of the herioc children and staff he worked with at the Mercy Centre in Bangkok.

Tom is also the author of non-fiction work “Bangkok Pool Blues”, and the Matt Chance adventures “Viper’s Tail” and “Murder in the Slaughterhouse”. "Murder in the Slaughterhouse" received a Bronze medal award from the Military Writer's Society of America in 2015. His Vietnam memoir is “Shrapnel Wounds.” His latest magazine article (Oct 2017, World War II Quarterly) is Merrill's Marauders in Burma.

His author’s page is at www.facebook.com\tomcrowleybooks