The Street

'Lovely, surprising… filled with life and optimism and a wicked sense of comedy… deeply satisfying.' The TimesThere's more going on in The Street than its inhabitants realise . . .In the course of this delightful, quirky and perceptive novel an elderly soldier with incipient Alzheimer's saves the life of a remarkable child, a resting actor finds real purpose, a woman starved of love discovers it in an unexpected place and a beloved cat achieves immortality.The Street reveals Bernardine Bishop's tradmark wry, refreshingly frank but always compassionate understanding of human behaviour. Witty, wise and immensely readable, it contains real truths.