MILLENNIUM GIRLS

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781350580060
  • Weight: 100g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 12 May 2025
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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I love my estate. I thought it was so run down when we first came here, but I’d actually hate to live on a road again. No 40-40 run outs, no water fights, no park, no astro. It’s always buzzing – cars blasting music, kids
playing. We’ve kinda made the wall by the entrance our spot. And we know – we get A LOT of attention.

Spanning three decades, we join Jessica, Chanel and Latisha as they navigate first kisses, free yards, bullies and breakdowns. And some things you don’t talk about. Ever.

Sophia Leonie’s debut play, MILLENNIUM GIRLS, set against a musical backdrop of UK Garage and 90s classics, is a joyful and achingly honest coming-of-age story exploring identity, girlhood and consent.

This edition of MILLENNIUM GIRLS was published to coincide with the run, produced by Zoe Gibbons Productions, at Brixton House in May 2025.

Sophia Leonie is a writer and performer. She studied writing at Middlesex University and acting at East 15. Her short film Love and More Important Things, was selected to premiere at the 2016 BUFF (British Urban Film Festival) as part of the Odeon Cinema Love Shorts collection. In 2019 her play 35 was longlisted for the Yard Theatre's First Drafts. A screen adaptation of this play was also longlisted by BBC’s Writers room 2019. In 2021 Sophia was announced as one of five recipients of a new Screenwriting Bursary from Neal Street Productions.

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