![]() ![]() Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth…” Prunella Scales as HRH Queen Elizabeth II and Alan Bennett as Anthony Blunt in the National Theatre production of A Question of Attribution, 1988. “The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there is something lofty about literature … All readers are equal, herself included. This may not sound like a particularly interesting plot until I tell you that this woman is the Queen of England.īetty Windsor has been portrayed before, in novels ( The Queen and I by Sue Townsend), films ( The Queen by Peter Morgan, starring Helen Mirren) and plays, (Alan Bennet’s own A Question of Attribution) but Bennet in this little, but highly entertaining novel, The Uncommon Reader has the confidence, or is it audacity, to not only put words in her mouth but thoughts in her head. This book is about reading and what happens to those around her when a wealthy, elderly, busy, and duty-obsessed woman discovers the joy of it. ![]()
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