The Queen and I (Acting Edition S.) - Softcover

Townsend, Sue

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0573018715 ISBN 13: 9780573018718

Publisher: Samuel French Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

In the not-too-distant future, a radical government has come to power in Great Britain and the Royal family has been moved...to a housing estate in Leicester. For the first time, the Royals have to live as ordinary people and they find the experience baffling and frightening, but ultimately enriching. Satire on the failings of the Welfare State, the pretensions, expectations and personal foibles of the Royal family; warm-hearted and affectionate comedy concerning the Royals’ attempts to come to terms with their new situation; moments of gentle irony alternating with pure farce: all these, and more, are facets of this many-layered and superbly entertaining fantasy.

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Review:

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)

About the Author:

Sue Townsend became Britain's bestselling author of the 1980s with her books The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 and The Growing Pains Of Adrian Mole. She is the author of seven other novels, including Number Ten. She is well known as a playwright and lives in Leicester.

About this edition

• Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0573018715
• ISBN 13: 9780573018718
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92