{"product_id":"lady-in-the-van-9780573112669","title":"Lady in the Van","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alan Bennett\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Samuel French Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Samuel French Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGenre: Comedy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Characters: 9 males, 5 females \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Scenery: Various sets \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Alan Bennett draws from his memoirs to offer a dramatized account of the genteel vagrant, Miss Shepard, who parked her van in his driveway for fifteen years. Maggie Smith starred in London's West End. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"A wonderfully bittersweet comic diary of the years in which a lethally dotty and very smelly old bat parked her unroadworthy vehicle in Bennett's Camden garden, thereby providing him with roughly equal amounts of good journalistic copy and guilty landlord irritation.\" -Spectator \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Hilarious...A consistently enjoyable entertainment.\" -The New York Times \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Without doubt, the best new play of the year.\" -Daily Telegraph \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Bennett's writing is nimble, ironical, cruel and humane...Gives the West End one of its saddest, funniest, and most distinguished offerings for years.\" -London Times \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Samuel French Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46891802263703,"sku":"9780573112669","price":1537.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780573112669.webp?v=1770276659","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/lady-in-the-van-9780573112669","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}