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The Shielding of Mrs Forbes: Faber Stories

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Shielding of Mrs Forbes: Faber Stories
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Alan Bennett
By (author) Alan Bennett
SeriesFaber Stories
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:80
Dimensions(mm): Height 162,Width 110
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Short stories
ISBN/Barcode 9780571351824
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 7 March 2019
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

Alan Bennett has been a leading dramatist since Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His works include Talking Heads, Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, A Question of Attribution, The Madness of George III (and the Oscar-nominated screenplay), an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, The History Boys, The Habit of Art, People, Hymn and Cocktail Sticks. Prose collections: Writing Home, Untold Stories (PEN/Ackerley Prize, 2006) and Keeping On Keeping On; and his poetry anthology, Six Poets, Hardy to Larkin. His fiction includes The Uncommon Reader and Smut: Two Unseemly Stories.