Making Nice - Softcover

Mount, Ferdinand

Softcover

ISBN 10: 147299289X ISBN 13: 9781472992895

Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2022

Synopsis

The deliciously sharp new novel from Ferdinand Mount, author of the Sunday Times Book of the Year Kiss Myself Goodbye

Ferdinand Mount's stinging satire plunges into the dubious world of London PR firms, the back rooms of Westminster and the campaign trail in Africa and America. We follow the hapless Dickie Pentecost, redundant diplomatic correspondent for a foundering national newspaper, together with his stern oncologist wife Jane, and their daughters Flo, an aspiring ballerina, and the quizzical teenager Lucy.

The whole family find themselves entangled in an ever more alarming series of events revolving around the elusive Ethel (full name Ethelbert), dynamic founder of the soaring public relations agency Making Nice.

With echoes of Evelyn Waugh and The Thick of It, Making Nice is a masterly take on the madness of contemporary society and the limitless human capacity for self-deception.

About this title

About the Author

Ferdinand Mount is a novelist, essayist and former editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1991 to 2002. As a political figure, he was head of the Number Ten Policy Unit. As a journalist, he has contributed regular columns to The Spectator, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times. He is the author of several books, including Of Love and Asthma (part of his six-volume series A Chronicle of Modern Twilight) which won the Hawthornden Prize in 1992, Making Nice and The Pentecost Papers. He lives in North London with his family.

From the Back Cover

The deliciously sharp new novel from Ferdinand Mount, author of the Sunday Times Book of the Year Kiss Myself Goodbye



Ferdinand Mount's stinging satire plunges into the dubious world of London PR firms, the back rooms of Westminster and the campaign trail in Africa and America. We follow the hapless Dickie Pentecost, redundant diplomatic correspondent for a foundering national newspaper, together with his stern oncologist wife Jane, and their daughters Flo, an aspiring ballerina, and the quizzical teenager Lucy. The whole family find themselves entangled in an ever more alarming series of events revolving around the elusive Ethel (full name Ethelbert), dynamic founder of the soaring public relations agency Making Nice.



With echoes of Evelyn Waugh and The Thick of It, Making Nice is a masterly take on the madness of contemporary society and the limitless human capacity for self-deception.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147299289X
• ISBN 13: 9781472992895
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256