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A Roof Under Your Feet

(1973)
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A social comedy describing how the arrival at a London rooming house of a new tenant, a mysterious young man, affects and disrupts the lives of all the other inhabitants of the house. Among them are Godfrey Makepeace Thackeray, a failed author; old Mrs Prendergast, who sits at her window on the second floor watching and waiting for someone or something; Errol Flynn Taylor, fantasizer and fingerer of the Playmate of the Month; sweet Georgia; Owen the fake Welshman. And down in the basement there's Jawaharlal MacGregor (half Indian, half Scottish), his two wives and his five children and 25-inch TV set.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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