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|title=The Year of the Jouncer

|sort=Year of the Jouncer

|date=November 2006

|isbn=1862079072

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Experts have proved that many of us need regular doses of the musings of an elderly British playwright. The writer in question must be critically well-regarded, living in London, but with a country retreat, and be mildly, wittily grumpy about modern everyday life. Alan Bennett, of course, amply fulfils this role for many. But there is a more dissolute alternative: Simon Gray.