The Annex - Large Print Author:Russell James A modern take on one of the most notorious Jacobean tragedies, Thomas Middleton’s, The Changeling, brought up to date in present-day England. This violent and sexy version homes in on the basic plot of an older man losing his luscious new wife to a virile young blood. — Written by the man Ian Rankin called ‘The Godfather of B... more »ritish Noir’, James cuts to the quick – and in doing so cuts some of the more old-fashioned coincidences, cuts all the speeches, a good deal of the poetry and some of the minor characters, and concentrates instead on the gripping plot and its three main characters (middle aged husband, his young bride, and their wicked servant). From the original play he leaves in the saucy maid, the rival boyfriend and the awful secret, along with Middleton’s outrageous sexual premise.« less