Name: Killing Time (en Inglés)
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Author: Alan Bennett
ISBN: 9780571394814

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Faber and Faber

Autor

Alan Bennett

Año

2024

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

112

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

168 x 129 mm

ISBN13

9780571394814

Killing Time (en Inglés)

Alan Bennett (Autor) · Faber and Faber · Tapa Dura

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.

Killing Time is a wonderful surprise gift from Alan Bennett - a new story, set in a home for the elderly; a glorious, darkly comic treat.

'A mini-masterpiece.' THE TIMES
'Full of wit and style.' OBSERVER
'A terrific cast of characters, and secrets and chaos aplenty.' iNEWS
'A geriatric Lord of the Flies.' SPECTATOR

We have a choir and on special occasions a glass of dry sherry. It's less of a home and more of a club and very much a community.

Presided over by the lofty Mrs McBryde, Hill Topp House is a superior council home for the elderly. Among the unforgettable cast of staff and residents there's Mr Peckover the deluded archaeologist, Phyllis the knitter, Mr Cresswell the ex-cruise ship hairdresser, the enterprising Mrs Foss and Mr Jimson the chiropodist. Covid is the cause of fatalities and the source of darkly comic confusion, but it's also the key to liberation. As staff are hospitalised, protocol breaks down. Miss Rathbone reveals a lifelong secret, and the surviving residents seize their moment, arthritis allowing, to scamper freely in the warmth of the summer sun.

'Violet? She'll be having a little lie-down,' said Mrs McBryde. 'She likes to give her pacemaker a rest. I'll rout her out.'