Killing Time: A Sunday Times Bestselling 'pitch-perfect' (Observer) treat for winter.
Author: Bennett, Alan
Brand: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 112
Release Date: 11-09-2025
Details: We have a choir and on special occasions a glass of dry sherry. It's less of a home and more of a club and very much a community.
Presided over by the lofty Mrs McBryde, Hill Topp House is a superior council home for the elderly. Among the unforgettable cast of staff and residents there's Mr Peckover the deluded archaeologist, Phyllis the knitter, Mr Cresswell the ex-cruise ship hairdresser, the enterprising Mrs Foss and Mr Jimson the chiropodist. Covid is the cause of fatalities and the source of darkly comic confusion, but it's also the key to liberation. As staff are hospitalised, protocol breaks down. Miss Rathbone reveals a lifelong secret, and the surviving residents seize their moment, arthritis allowing, to scamper freely in the warmth of the summer sun.
'Violet? She'll be having a little lie down,' said Mrs McBryde. 'She likes to give her pacemaker a rest. I'll rout her out.'
EAN: 9780571394821
Package Dimensions: 6.6 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches
Languages: English
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Killing Time: A Sunday Times Bestselling 'pitch-perfect' (Observer) treat for winter.
Killing Time: A Sunday Times Bestselling 'pitch-perfect' (Observer) treat for winter.
Author: Bennett, Alan
Brand: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 112
Release Date: 11-09-2025
Details: We have a choir and on special occasions a glass of dry sherry. It's less of a home and more of a club and very much a community.
Presided over by the lofty Mrs McBryde, Hill Topp House is a superior council home for the elderly. Among the unforgettable cast of staff and residents there's Mr Peckover the deluded archaeologist, Phyllis the knitter, Mr Cresswell the ex-cruise ship hairdresser, the enterprising Mrs Foss and Mr Jimson the chiropodist. Covid is the cause of fatalities and the source of darkly comic confusion, but it's also the key to liberation. As staff are hospitalised, protocol breaks down. Miss Rathbone reveals a lifelong secret, and the surviving residents seize their moment, arthritis allowing, to scamper freely in the warmth of the summer sun.
'Violet? She'll be having a little lie down,' said Mrs McBryde. 'She likes to give her pacemaker a rest. I'll rout her out.'
EAN: 9780571394821
Package Dimensions: 6.6 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches
Languages: English
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Author: Bennett, Alan
Brand: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 112
Release Date: 11-09-2025
Details: We have a choir and on special occasions a glass of dry sherry. It's less of a home and more of a club and very much a community.
Presided over by the lofty Mrs McBryde, Hill Topp House is a superior council home for the elderly. Among the unforgettable cast of staff and residents there's Mr Peckover the deluded archaeologist, Phyllis the knitter, Mr Cresswell the ex-cruise ship hairdresser, the enterprising Mrs Foss and Mr Jimson the chiropodist. Covid is the cause of fatalities and the source of darkly comic confusion, but it's also the key to liberation. As staff are hospitalised, protocol breaks down. Miss Rathbone reveals a lifelong secret, and the surviving residents seize their moment, arthritis allowing, to scamper freely in the warmth of the summer sun.
'Violet? She'll be having a little lie down,' said Mrs McBryde. 'She likes to give her pacemaker a rest. I'll rout her out.'
EAN: 9780571394821
Package Dimensions: 6.6 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches
Languages: English
