Summary
‘A great comic novel lit by Townsend’s warmth and wit’ Independent
Behind the doors of the most famous address in the country, all is not well.
Edward Clare was voted into Number Ten after a landslide election victory. But a few years later and it is all going wrong. The love of the people is gone. The nation is turning against him.
Panicking, Prime Minister Clare enlists the help of Jack Sprat, the policeman on the door of No 10, and sets out to discover what the coun…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241958384 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241958385 |
| Author: | Sue Townsend |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 4 July 2012 |
| Weight: | 252g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 22mm |
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A wickedly entertaining and passionate swipe at New Labour
A wickedly entertaining and passionate swipe at New Labour * The Times *There is a gem on nearly every page. Nothing escapes Townsend’s withering pen. Satirical, witty, observant … a clever book * Observer *Poignant, hilarious, heart-rending, devastating * New Statesman *A delight. Genuinely funny … compassion shines through the unashamedly ironic social commentary * Guardian *
About The Author
Sue Townsend
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 13 ¾, 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.
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