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Alan Bennett is the author of Writing Home The Madness of George III Talking Heads The Clothes They Stood Up In and much else besides. Miss Shepherd lived in a Robin Reliant opposite Bennett’s house in Camden Town. After a series of attacks on her van he suggested she move with her van to his front drive. Initially reluctant she agreed – and Bennett landed himself a tenancy that went on for fifteen years. The Lady in the Van is probably Alan Bennett’s best-known work of non-fiction and follows his other little blockbuster The Clothes They Stood Up In.