‘Untold Stories’, Alan Bennett’s first major collection of prose since his bestselling ‘Writing Home’, brings together the finest and funniest of his writing over the last ten years.
As a child, Elizabeth was sent from her war-torn, rather loveless home in London to stay with a big, boisterous family in a small town in Ireland. There she meets Aisling, and begins what becomes a long-lasting friendship. Over the next 20 years, Aisling and Elizabeth's paths will cross and re-cross. As they face their loves, their marriages, and their disappointments, they realise that not all problems will be solved, nor....