Ilam Carve, an illustrious and painfully shy painter, returns to London just as his valet dies of pneumonia. When the doctor mistakes the dead man for the master, Carve lets the error stand and slips into a new life in Putney with Janet Cannot, a sensible widow, while Westminster Abbey honours the wrong body and dealers fight over his pictures.
Bennett’s own stage version of his novel Buried Alive, a sharp comedy about fame and the art market. Download the free EPUB.