Nigel Williams has published seventeen plays and fifteen novels to date. He has also written several television plays and produced documentaries (mainly on authors) for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Outside England, Williams is best known for his plays, especially Class Enemy (1978), which provided the source material for the German motion picture Klassen Feind (1983). The play, in which six teenage boys wait in a bare classroom for a teacher who never shows up, has been compared to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (1952); the hopelessness of the boys' lives and the black humor of the dialogue suggest further similarities to Beckett's work. In his fiction Williams has focused on relationships and families and the struggles they go through. The middle-class suburbs of London, Wimbledon and Putney, provide the setting for most of his novels. In a world in which suburban life is an experience shared by a growing number...