Telling Tales

Hampered, as he sees it, by a family that never manages to be quite like other families, Alan Bennett recounts his early years in Leeds - a place where early in life one learned the useful lesson that "life is generally something that happens elsewhere." His father a butcher, his mother a reader of women's magazines who dreams of coffee mornings, cocktail parties and a life "down south." Bennett relives family crises, early pieties and the lost tradition of musical evenings around the piano, with the wry observation and ironic understatement that has earned him a place in the forefront of contemporary writing.Bennett, Alan is the author of 'Telling Tales' with ISBN 9780753166710 and ISBN 0753166712.