The Clothes They Stood Up In And The Lady And The Van
Author: Alan Bennett
From Alan Bennett, the author of The Madness of King George, come two stories about the strange nature of possessions…or the lack of them. In the nationally bestselling novel The Clothes They Stood Up In, the staid Ransomes return from the opera to find their Regent’s Park flat stripped bare–right down to the toilet-paper roll. Free of all their earthly belongings, the….Read More
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