View Book The Lady In The Van Pictures. Life imitates art in the lady in the van, the story of the itinerant miss shepherd, who lived in a van in alan bennett's driveway from the early 1970s until i will probably read the rest of the book, though, as bennett's writing is so brilliant. So comic, and yet so evocative.

Parents need to know that the lady in the van is an adaptation of english playwright/author/actor alan bennett's diary, memoir, and play about his unusual friendship with mary shepherd, an elderly. 31,588 likes · 17 talking about this. Alan bennett is a unique human being, very few would put up with the lady or the van in.

The lady in the van.

This encounter with the putative boa constrictor was in the summer of 1971 when miss shepherd and her van had for some months been at a permanent halt opposite my house in camden town. Loved the tale of her life which alan wrote funny and sad. Life imitates art in the lady in the van, the story of the itinerant miss shepherd, who lived in a van in alan bennett's driveway from the early 1970s until i will probably read the rest of the book, though, as bennett's writing is so brilliant. This account of those years was first published in 1989 in the london review of books.