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This website has all kinds of information about Chris Hannan. You can listen to podcast interviews, check out forthcoming meet-the-writer events, or read reviews of his debut novel Missy. There is also commentary on Missy and its heroine Dol McQueen from the novel's editors and the writer.
As a playwright Chris Hannan is celebrated for the female roles he has created in plays such as Shining Souls and The Evil Doers. This is a good source for material about his theatre writing.
"Perhaps it's unsurprising that an award-winning playwright should have excelled in the creation of a character's voice, or that so much of the success of this debut novel should depend on that voice. But from the gorgeously sassy opening, it is surprising how winning, and how powerful, the voice of Dol McQueen (19th-century American prostitute) actually is." The Independent