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Summary
Writing Home is the first of four wonderfully entertaining collections of Alan Bennett’s prose.
Bringing together his diaries for 1980-1995 and the journal Alan Bennett kept during the production of Forty Years On, which starred John Gielgud, the book also includes accounts of his many television play, introduction to his Oscar-nominated screenplay for The Madness of King George and, at its heart,The Lady in the Van, the true account of Miss Mary Shepherd, a homeless tramp who took up residence in Bennett’s garden and stayed for fifteen years. From his now-legendary address at Russell Harty’s memorial service to recollections of growing up in Leeds,Writing Home gives us an unforgettable portrait of one of England’s leading playwrights.
Writing Home is the first of four collections, and is followed by True Stories, Keeping On Keeping and, most recently, the number 1 Sunday Times bestseller, Enough Said.
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Alan Bennett has been one of our leading dramatists since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his works for the stage including Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van (together with the screenplay), A Question of Attribution, The Madness of George III (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay The Madness of King George), and…
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