One of England's finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people's public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories. In _The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson,_ a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplemen
Smut: Two Unseemly Stories
โ Scribed by Alan Bennett
- Publisher
- F&F, Profile Books;BC Libraries Cooperative, Bennett, Alan, National Network for Equitable Library
- Year
- 2011;2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 118 KB
- Edition
- Unabridged
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1847657656
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โฆ Synopsis
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes
Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother, who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. Though her own husband isn't all that satisfactory either. Still, this is Alan Bennett, so what is happening in the bedroom (and in lots of other places too) is altogether more startling, perhaps shocking, and ultimately more true to people's predilections.
The Greening of Mrs Donaldson
Mrs Donaldson is a conventional middle-class woman beached on the shores of widowhood after a marriage that had been much like many others: happy to begin with, then satisfactory and finally dull. But when she decides to take in two lodgers, her mundane life becomes much more stimulating ...
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