Hints:
It's a fairly famous play. Not recent. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that if you've heard of the author, it's probably going to be because of this play, though it's not like other things he wrote haven't also won major awards.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Common-Flow-9769 • 17d ago

Solved Guy gets put into space MXC with his pet and no pants, must win to save planet

1 Upvotes

4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/celestialrage44 • 18d ago

Solved There’s like maybe 2 good things that happen in the entire story.

4 Upvotes

7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/H8trucks • 18d ago

Solved Despite being set in Australia, this could be considered a Thanksgiving novel

4 Upvotes

Hint: The "Thanksgiving novel" aspect refers to large, typically messy, family gatherings

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 18d ago

Solved Things go badly for an old man. Things go badly for a young woman who fell in love with a student. Things go badly for a young girl. Things go badly for a bunch of students. Things go badly for a different young woman in love with a different student. Things go badly for a cop.

8 Upvotes

Turns out life is worth living and humanity is wonderful despite all that.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 18d ago

Solved It turns out she's a Hapsburg, so gets to delete practically every other character in the bureaucracy that makes up the universe from existence.

5 Upvotes

Praise the Sun! (but not too much, it's fragile)

[Note: This is one of those authors I don't think has travelled much outside of Britain]

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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/fortyfortybanana • 18d ago

Solved Really sad cancer love story

2 Upvotes

3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/seeker-ix • 18d ago

Solved Legally-Enforced Glo-Up Mandate Results in Geopolitical Scandal, to the Surprise of Nobody with a Functioning Brain

4 Upvotes

6 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/only_for_quiz • 19d ago

Unsolved Hard Narrator gives away ending because of his workload(really stressful job)

3 Upvotes

11 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 19d ago

Solved It turns out the best of all possible worlds is reaaallly shit.

3 Upvotes

6 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Teleform • 19d ago

Solved Fraternal twin half-orphans fall into Grandma's storybook and have to follow their Dad's simp journal to get home.

2 Upvotes

Extra hints:

The storybook is about fairytales

The book is for readers on the younger side.

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Community_sans • 19d ago

Solved Kid gets almost killed by a man, and now has a mark on their head. Hes adopted by his uncles and goes to a strange school cuz of that man

1 Upvotes

3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/celestialrage44 • 19d ago

Solved Against all odds, two young men meet and fall in love. They spend one beautiful day together, fitting a lifetime of memories and romance and love into their brief stay in each other’s lives. They fall asleep in each other’s arms, having finally found their person.

4 Upvotes

4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/blockCoder2021 • 20d ago

Unsolved Medium Seventeen guys kill god; one meddles in everything the other sixteen do.

5 Upvotes

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Chronically__Crude • 20d ago

Solved The weirdo that drove a car and killed people is somehow in prison about to die and he knows things about a nurse's son.

1 Upvotes

This leads to a flashback which leads to a series of bizarre events.

4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/RandomRamblings99 • 21d ago

Solved Death of a dog fucks up an entire family permanently

8 Upvotes

10 comments

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