"LILY, the caretaker’s daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged again and she had to scamper along the bare hallway to let in another guest."
A chance to see Aidan Gillen in the flesh, as opposed to on the screens in Game of Thrones in the beautiful surrounds of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, as he reads short stories by James Joyce, including The Dead on 29 December.
Click here to book tickets and see the full Winter’s Tales programme.