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The Shielding of Mrs Forbes

The Shielding of Mrs Forbes 1

Faber Stories

by Alan Bennett
Paperback
Publication Date: 03/06/2019
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Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future.

Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called 'Footballers with Their Shirts Off' when she unexpectedly came in on the trail of the hairdryer.

'I didn't know you were interested in football,' said Betty.

No one must ever find out that Graham is 'not the marrying sort'. Certainly not his wife, or his mother. As sex, blackmail and fanatical tidiness take over the West Yorkshire parish of Alwoodley, an unlikely caper unfolds.

ISBN:
9780571351824
9780571351824
Category:
Short stories
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-06-2019
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
80
Dimensions (mm):
162x110x7mm
Weight:
0.06kg
Alan Bennett

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.

One of the National Theatre's most successful productions ever, The History Boys won numerous awards including Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Best Play, an Olivier for the Best New Play and the South Bank Award.

His collection of prose Writing Home was a number one bestseller. Untold Stories won the PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography, 2006. Recent works of fiction are The Uncommon Reader and Smut: Two Unseemly Stories.

The film of The Lady in the Van starring Maggie Smith was released in 2015, and a new edition of his book of the same name a #1 bestseller for nine weeks.

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Sharp, witty and smart. A very quick read and being such a purse size book is great for travel.

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