Dunbar by Edward St Aubyn

A retelling of King Lear as part of the Hogarth Shakespeare Series. Dunbar (King Lear) has lost his international media business to his unscrupulous daughters in a boardroom coup and is wandering around the Lake District, having escaped from the nursing home his daughters banished him to. Everyone is looking for him. But who will find him first? Brilliant. I loved it. Told with razor-sharp wit and great empathy.