Review of The Lady in the Van (2015) by Gardenparty — 20 Mar 2016
As a lifelong Anglican Bennett should be ashamed to write such nasty claptrap about an elderly Catholic women; he makes Catholicism a center concern of his writing, and he roundly, and unfairly, criticizes it.
If it had been a white person writing about a black character, there would have been a protest. But, since it is British, and it is only a Catholic, it jolly well funny. What is so sad is that the premise and the writing are good, the religiious bigotry is aweful.
I am no great defender of The Church, but with the history of the Church of England, the writer should have known better. He is just another London bigot.
This review of The Lady in the Van (2015) was written by Gardenparty on 20 Mar 2016.
The Lady in the Van has generally received positive reviews.
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