'Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Footballers with Their Shirts Off when she unexpectedly came in on the trail of the hairdryer. "I didn't know you were interested in football," said Betty.' No one must ever find out that Graham is 'not the marrying sort'. Certainly not his wife, or his mother. As sex, blackmail and fanatical tidiness take over the West Yorkshire parish of Alwoodley, an unlikely caper unfolds.
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Alan Bennett es autor de muchas obras teatrales como Habeas Corpus, Forty One Years On, Kafka’s Dick o The Madness of George III (adaptada después al cine), guiones cinematográficos como Prick Up Your Ears (basado en la vida de Joe Orton), y piezas televisivas como Talking Heads y An Englishman Abroad, que lo han convertido en uno de los autores británicos más queridos, o la selección de sus diarios Writing Home. Asimismo es muy apreciado como actor. En 2003 recibió el British Book Award por la obra de una vida y fue calificado como «nuestro Tesoro Nacional», aunque naturalmente Bennett detesta esta frase.