Product details
- ISBN 9780571315727
- Weight: 555g
- Dimensions: 125 x 195mm
- Publication Date: 04 Sep 2014
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
