Reflections on Covid and confinement from the unparalleled pen of Alan Bennett.

A wonderful surprise gift from Alan Bennett - a brand new story, set in a home for the elderly; 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.

Mrs Donaldson is a conventional middle-class woman beached on the shores of widowhood after a marriage that had been much like many others: happy to begin with, then satisfactory and finally dull. But when she decides to take in two lodgers, her mundane life becomes much more stimulating.