The Queen and I

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Beschreibung

The Royals Are Out of Office.<br><br>The Sunday roast is burnt, the corgis are gone, and the monarchy's gone Midlands - a hilarious British classic from the author of Adrian Mole<br><br>--<br>The Royals, they're just like us . . .<br><br>THE MONARCHY HAS BEEN DISMANTLED<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>But is their breeding sufficient to allow them to rise above their changed circumstance or deep down are they really just like everyone else?<br>____________<br><br>'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<br><br>'Absorbing, entertaining . . . the funniest thing in print since Adrian Mole' Daily Telegraph<br><br>'Kept me rolling about until the last page' Daily Mail

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780241958377

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 132 x 20 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)