Rebuilding Coventry: A Tale of Two Cities - Hardcover

Townsend, Sue

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802111157 ISBN 13: 9780802111159

Publisher: Grove Pr, 1990

Synopsis

When she accidentally kills her neighbor, Coventry Dakin, a suburban housewife, hides among the homeless in London, where Dodo, a bag lady, offers her help

About this title

Review:

Townsend's wit is razor-sharp --The Daily Mirror

Proof, once more, that Townsend is one of the funniest writers around --The Times

Proof, once more, that Townsend is one of the funniest writers around --The Times

About the Author:

Sue Townsend was born in Leicester in 1946. Despite not learning to read until the age of eight, leaving school at fifteen with no qualifications and having three children by the time she was in her mid-twenties, she always found time to read widely. She also wrote secretly for twenty years. After joining a writers' group at The Phoenix Theatre, Leicester, she won a Thames Television award for her first play, Womberang, and became a professional playwright and novelist. After the publication of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue continued to make the nation laugh and prick its conscience. She wrote seven further volumes of Adrian's diaries and five other popular novels - including The Queen and I, Number Ten and The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year - and numerous well received plays. Sue passed away in 2014 at the age of sixty-eight. She remains widely regarded as Britain's favourite comic writer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0802111157
• ISBN 13: 9780802111159
• Binding: Hardcover