Killing Time

SKU: 9780571394814
Killing Time

Killing Time

SKU: 9780571394814
Author: Alan Bennett
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🖤 Tone: Darkly funny, satirical, quietly unsettling
📚 Genre: Literary fiction, satire, contemporary fiction
⚡ Pace: Gentle-to-steady, character-driven
🏡 Vibes: British suburbia, eccentric characters, social satire, quiet menace beneath ordinary life
✨ Themes: Loneliness, obsession, ageing, human absurdity, social commentary
🧠 Emotional Journey: Wry, clever, bittersweet
📖 Hook: What begins as ordinary suburban life slowly reveals strange obsessions and unsettling tensions beneath the surface of everyday routines
💫 Perfect For: Readers who enjoy sharply observed literary fiction with dark humour and eccentric British characters
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Genre: Literary Fiction
Format:  Hardback
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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.

Age Range: 18+
Publisher Date: 4 February 2025
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages: 112
Dimensions: 16.8 x 12.9 x 1.7 cm
Language: English

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