The Uncommon Reader • Alan Bennett
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121 pages • Profile Books • May 3, 2012 [PB]
Tim Bennett-Goodman does not see a knighthood in the offing for the author of this delightfully wicked book.
Permalink“Bennett imagines the Palace as peopled by a cast of eccentrics and grotesques, from the prissy private secretary, Sir Kevin Scatchard, to the niffy nonagenarian, Sir Claude Pollington. It is also rife with politicking and camp bitchery.”