Four stories

This is a collection of four short stories. Father! Father! Burning Bright is the savage satire on a dying man's family reaction as he still asserts control over them from the hospital bed. The Clothes They Stood Up In is the painful story of what happens to an elderly couple when their flat is stripped completely bare. The Laying on of Hands tells of a memorial service for a masseur to the famous that goes horribly wrong. The Lady in the Van is the true story of the eccentric old lady and her van invited by a homeowner to live in his garden. The homeowner is Alan Bennett and she stays for fifteen years. It became a West End hit, starring Maggie Smith. These stories are painfully observant of ordinary people's foibles

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The laying on of hands ;The clothes they stood up in ; Father! father! burning bright ; The lady in the van

Lydbog