Enough Said

A legend of British letters * Financial Times *In an age of curated self-belief, his vulnerabilities feel refreshing, his reticence almost radical… we are left with the bracing consolation of a mind that has never stopped doubting, never stopped observing, never stopped quietly, stubbornly climbing the stairs * The Times *Praise for Killing Time: Full of wit and style * Observer *Nobody does it like [Bennett] … his sentences remain as devastatingly, casually precise as ever * Guardian *Bennett, with his gentle narrative voice, has lulled us into a story that takes the scandalous tragedy of care home deaths from Covid-19 as its true subject * Financial Times *So accustomed are we now to Bennett’s prose that it takes a mental leap to notice just how good he is, how finely tuned his sentences, the microscopic power of his observation * iNews *

Alan Bennett’s works of prose include House Arrest, Keeping On Keeping On, Writing Home and Untold Stories (PEN/Ackerley Prize, 2006). His fiction includes The Uncommon Reader, Smut: Two Unseemly Stories and Killing Time. His celebrated work for the stage and screen include Talking Heads, Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, A Question of Attribution, The Madness of George III, an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, The History Boys, The Habit of Art, People, Hymn, Cocktail Sticks, Two Besides and Allelujah!