![]() ![]() Though the prolific Bennett is better known in America for his plays and screenplays (his Tony Award–winning play, The History Boys, was made into a movie in 2007), his subtle wit and tonal command show why he is so beloved in his native Britain. And another, until reading has become her life’s focus. Yet an unlikely incident involving her dogs and a mobile library making its weekly appearance outside Buckingham Palace moves her to borrow a book. ![]() She has never been a reader, because reading isn’t something that “one” (as she invariably refers to herself) does. In a country of commoners, the uncommon reader is the Queen. A royal fable celebrating the transformative properties (and a few of the unsettling consequences) of reading as an obsession. ![]()
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