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The Queen and I

Sue Townsend

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English
Penguin Books Ltd
04 July 2012
The Monarchy has been dismantled

When a Republican party wins the General Election, their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets and titles and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands.

Exchanging Buckingham Palace for a two-bedroomed semi in Hell Close (as the locals dub it), caviar for boiled eggs, servants for a social worker named Trish, the Queen and her family learn what it means to be poor among the great unwashed. But is their breeding sufficient to allow them to rise above their changed circumstance or deep down are they really just like everyone else?

'No other author could imagine this so graphically, demolish the institution so wittily and yet leave the family with its human dignity intact.' The Times

'Absorbing, entertaining

. . .

the funniest thing in print since Adrian Mole.' Ruth Rendell, Daily Telegraph

'Kept me rolling about until the last page.' Daily Mail

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Imprint:   Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   202g
ISBN:   9780241958377
ISBN 10:   0241958377
Pages:   288
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author. For thirty years, since the publication of The Secret Diaries of Adrian Mole Aged 13 in 1982, she has made us weep with laughter and pricked the nation's conscience. Seven further volumes of Adrian's diaries have followed, and all have been highly acclaimed bestsellers. She has also published five other popular novels and written numerous well-received plays. She lives in Leicester, where she was born and grew up.

Reviews for The Queen and I

No other author could imagine this so graphically, demolish the institution so wittily and yet leave the family with its human dignity intact * The Times * Kept me rolling about until the last page * Daily Mail * Laugh-out-loud funny * Sunday Telegraph *


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