Consider his infamous inaccessibility to the press, which leads to the most bathetic scene in Mrs.

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Kitson won the Perrier Comedy Award in 2002, at the age of twenty-five, and his gift is for the crafting of exquisite narratives, shows shaped like Alice Munro stories, bathetic and beautiful.

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