Lost Atoms - by Anna Jordan (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

"A rollercoaster of soaring highs and devastating lows...utterly truthful and deeply poetic." -Theatre and Tonic

Jess and Robbie. A chance meeting, some disastrous dates, an extraordinary transformative love. It's the stuff of fairy tales. Or is it?

Lost Atoms is a wild ride through a life-changing relationship, or Jess and Robbie's recollection of it. Together they scale the soaring highs and crushing lows, relive the beats of connection, the moments of loss. But are their stories the same? And can their memories be trusted? By turns hilarious and devastating, Anna Jordan's Lost Atoms tells a timeless story which explores how love shapes our lives and how we remember it.

Review Quotes

"Ingenious...brings all the lust and mess of a relationship to life."

-The Times

"Authentic and incredibly moving, playful, sweet, sexy, and vulnerable...Jordan has written a very modern romance."

-Guardian

"A sublime piece of theatre...powerfully poignant and also very funny."

-Whatsonstage

"A tender, visceral exploration of falling in and out of love."

-The Stage

About the Author

Anna Jordan is a playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. Her play Yen won the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. Her other plays include: Lost Atoms (Frantic Assembly, Curve Mayflower Southampton and Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, 2025); We Anchor in Hope (Bunker Theatre, London, 2019); The Unreturning (Frantic Assembly and Theatre Royal Plymouth, 2018); Pop Music (Paines Plough and Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 2018); Chicken Shop (Park Theatre, 2014); and Freak (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, 2014), among others. As a director her work has included Crystal Springs (Eureka, San Francisco, 2014) and Tomorrow I'll Be Happy by Jonathan Harvey at the National Theatre Shed, as part of the 2013 Connections Festival. She is artistic director of Without a Paddle Theatre, associate director at London's Theatre503, and teaches acting and playwriting.