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Post by Moose on Sept 26, 2023 1:47:38 GMT
Has anyone read The Queen and I? Fictitious account by the author of the Adrian Mole books of what might happen were an anti monarchist government to be voted in and chuck the Royals out to live on a council estate. Both funny and poignant, as all Townsend's books are.
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Post by Moose on Sept 26, 2023 2:01:54 GMT
Created by Rish for www.esnips.com/web/booksandstuff 15 4 Poshos The street sign at the entrance to the Close had lost five black metal letters. HELL CLOSE it now said, illuminated by the light of a flickering street lamp. The Queen thought, “Yes, it is Hell, it must be, because I’ve never seen anything like it in the whole of my waking life.” She had visited many council estates – had opened community centres, had driven through the bunting and the cheering crowds, alighted from the car, walked on red carpets, been given a posy by a two-year-old in a “Mothercare” party frock, been greeted by tongue-tied dignitaries, pulled a cord, revealed a plaque, signed the visitors’ book. Then, carpet, car, drive to helicopter and up, up and away. She’d seen the odd documentary on BBC2 about urban poverty, heard unattractive poor people talk in broken sentences about their dreadful lives, but she’d regarded such programmes as sociological curiosities, on a par with watching the circumcision ceremonies of Amazonian Indians, so far away that it didn’t really matter.
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Post by tangent on Sept 26, 2023 9:11:24 GMT
I've read Sue Townsend's original book but not her latest one. I agree, very insightful.
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Post by Moose on Sept 26, 2023 9:23:19 GMT
Which original book? She has written dozens.
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Post by Moose on Sept 26, 2023 9:24:01 GMT
Also she has been dead for quite a while so is definitely not writing any more
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Post by tangent on Sept 26, 2023 9:27:02 GMT
I didn't know she's written a lot of books (or that she's dead).
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