The Lady in the Van/My Uncle Clarence

The bizarre tale of an eccentric old woman who lived in glorious self-sufficiency in a van in Bennett's garden for 15 years; this reissue adds details discovered after her death.

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Alan Bennett's most famous work of non-fiction. It is the history of Miss Shepherd, who in the 1970s lived in a Robin Reliant car opposite Bennett's house in Camden. After a series of attacks on her van, he suggested she move to his driveway. Thus began an extraordinary 15 year friendship between a writer and a homeless old lady.