Alan bennett the queen5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() She becomes to rely on Norman to recommend his favourites to her. One has to be polite.Īnd she feels that it is incumbent upon her to borrow a book. It is a mobile library which regularly visits the palace so that the staff can borrow books.The queen has to be polite.(One does,doesn’t one?) In the mobile library she finds Norman, a lowly member of the palace staff. One day, when the queen is exercising her dogs in the palace grounds and she is chasing them, she finds herself in a courtyard which contains a strange vehicle. In Alan Bennett’s book though, she starts to read fiction.It’s all the fault of her corgis. This is a wonderful fictional account of what happened when Queen Elizabeth II decided to take up reading.The queen reads – of course she does – but in this novella,her reading activities are confined to state papers,official documents and the more serious daily newspapers. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett: Review. ![]()
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