“Entertaining and affable” – Gloucester Crescent by William Miller

"Almost everyone who picks this book up will be looking for another perspective on the life of Alan Bennett, Beryl Bainbridge and Miss Shepherd (in her van), they will be sorely disappointed. Gloucester Crescent is a child’s eye memoir of growing up in a bohemia where the adults’ values have unintended consequences (for the child of an intellectual William’s education is a disaster). William Miller may be the most genial writer of the year, he always considers the other person’s point of view and Gloucester Crescent ends in a forgiving understanding of his relationship with his father. However, as the diaries of his family friend, Alan Bennett, illustrate, memoir (or a diary) can be at its best when it is unforgiving and exasperated by other people" - James Doyle reviews Gloucester Crescent by William Miller

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