We last read this in 2019, pre-pandemic!
Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene, adapted for the stage by Giles Havergal
Not just a play - also a film starring Maggie Smith.
While attending the cremation of his
mother's remains, London bank manager Henry Pulling meets eccentric
Augusta Bertram, a woman who claims to be his aunt and announces that
the woman who raised him was not his biological mother. She invites him
back to her apartment, where her lover, an African fortune teller named
Zachary Wordsworth, is waiting for her. Shortly after she receives a
package allegedly containing the severed finger of her true love, Ercole
Visconti, with a note promising the two will be reunited upon payment
of $100,000.
Augusta asks Henry to accompany her
to Paris and he agrees, unaware she actually is smuggling £50,000 out of
England and transporting it to Turkey for a gangster named Crowder in
exchange for a £10,000 fee she can put toward the ransom ... and I will
not spoil it for you by saying any more!
