The uncommon reader book6/19/2023 Though Ivy Compton-Burnett proves a stodgy start, she ploughs on to the end and, appetite whetted, returns for another. Her discovery of books happens by chance: the corgis discover the City of Westminster mobile library parked outside the Buckingham Palace kitchens and the Queen, having calmed their yapping, feels duty-bound to borrow a book. As portrayed by Alan Bennett in his quirky new novella, The Uncommon Reader, she is canny, intelligent and - most subversive of all - an increasingly avid reader who becomes convinced of the transformative power of literature. What is it about the Queen that inspires such deep affection in the British? As played by Helen Mirren in The Queen, HM was possessed of a steeliness, an impatience with cant and humbug and a sharp sense of humour.
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