Reading Recommendation

From my recent reading, I'm highly recommending a delightful little novel called The Uncommon Reader. The author, Alan Bennett, is British and known primarily as a playwright. A previous novel, The Clothes on Their Backs, had an intriguing premise - a middle aged, upper middle class couple living in London return from an evening at the theatre to find their apartment totally cleared out. The book, about what ensues, I thought didn't do justice to the premise. This one has a brilliant premise which is brilliantly executed.

The uncommon reader is the Queen, who as she approaches her 80th birthday, discovers a bookmobile which makes weekly visits to the palace grounds, and becomes an enthusiast reader. What happens from there is a testament to the pleasures and power of reading. I didn't want it to end!

Wendy