The Bender Author:Paul Scott A Sad Comedy. Set in 1960s London, in this satire about the middle classes, George Lisle-Spruce has everything London in the sixties can offer: money, parties, friends, divorce, loneliness and an obsessive debt to his brother. He flits from woman to woman until finally he is forced to see the truth -- he ends up in the country lookin... more »g after his brother's 17 year-old pregnant daughter.