Queen Camilla - Rilegato

Townsend, Sue

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0718148568 ISBN 13: 9780718148560

Casa editrice: Michael Joseph, 2006

Riassunto

For the past thirteen years, as England became an increasingly unhappy and fearful place, Prince Charles has been living quietly on a bleak council estate, The Flower Exclusion Zone (known locally as ‘The Fez), with his wife and love of his life, Camilla. He enjoys gardening and poultry keeping while Camilla spends her days doing as little as possible, alongside their fellow ASBO-subjected neighbours. But life is about to change ...

Charles refuses to follow his destiny unless his wife can be Queen – and public opinion suggests the people would rather have Jordan than Camilla on the throne. But no sooner has Prince William offered himself as the next monarch, than one Graham Cracknall of Ruislip emerges – claiming to be Charles and Camilla’s secret love child, and therefore the rightful heir to the crown.

When the battle for the Crown begins the dogs on the Fez begin a struggle of their own – one that sweeps across the dog population of England. As Harris, the Queen’s irascible corgi says, ‘we’ve been domesticated for too long, it’s time we showed our bleeding teeth.’

Will sanity prevail over the right royal cock up that England has become?

Or will chaos reign supreme?

Queen Camilla shows Sue Townsend at her very best – sharp, satirical and utterly hilarious from the first page to the last.

Su questo libro

Recensione:

Praise for Sue Townsend's last book:

'The funniest book of the year. I can think of no more comical read.' Jeremy Paxman

'As funny as anything Townsend has written' Sunday Times

L'autore:

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Michael Joseph
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0718148568
• ISBN 13: 9780718148560
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 464