![]() ![]() ![]() Slogging through Compton Burnett, the Queen borrows a Nancy Mitford book the next week. This unplanned event sets into motion an extraordinary chain of events. Hutchings and his young patron, the Queen borrows at random a book written by Ivy Compton Burnett (an author who was made Dame by the Queen herself). Hutchings the person in charge of the library is engaged in the process of stamping a book which is being borrowed by Norman Seakins, a ginger haired autodidact gay, who also happens to man the kitchens. This spontaneously acquired habit also launches Her Majesty into a threnody dissecting the very purpose of life.Ĭhasing after her unruly Corgis, the Queen, to her astonishment stumbles upon a mobile library parked adjacent the Buck House Kitchens. ![]() One part refreshing and two parts humorous, “ The Uncommon Reader” has at its frontispiece a septuagenarian Queen Elizabeth suddenly bitten by the reading bug and transforming into a voracious and incorrigible reader. For this is a book, which I fervently and jealously wish I had written. If Alan Bennett had written “ The Uncommon Reader”, a couple of centuries ago, his head would have been served on a platter – literally. ![]()
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