The Clothes They Stood Up In and The Lady In The Van
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The Clothes They Stood Up In and The Lady In The Van

2002
Middle-aged personsFriends and associatesBurglaryEccentrics and eccentricitiesMarried peopleHomeless womenFictionFiction, generalLondon (england), fictionMarried people, fiction

"In The Clothes They Stood Up In, the staid Ransomes return from the opera to find their Regent's Park flat stripped bare - right down to the toilet-paper roll. Free of all their earthly belongings, the couple faces a perplexing question: Who are they without the things they've spent a lifetime accumulating? Suddenly a world of unlimited, frightening possibility opens up before them.". "In "The Lady in the Van," Bennett recounts the strange life of Miss Shepherd, a London eccentric who parked her van (overstuffed with decades' worth of old clothes, oozing batteries, and kitchen utensils still in their original packaging) in the author's driveway for more than fifteen years."--BOOK JACKET.

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