- Paperback: 64 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (6 May 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141022612
- ISBN-13: 978-0141022611
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.6 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 135,931 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Every book tells a story. And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935, and that continues to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin. Whether in the guise of a thirteen and three-quarter year old adolescent, a transvestite PM or the Queen reduced to living on a council estate, Sue Townsend has been brilliantly satirizing British life for more than twenty years. Penguin publish all Townsend's hilarious "Adrian Mole" books, and "The Queen in Hell Close" is an extract from "The Queen and I", a brilliantly acerbic take on a Royal Family in dire straits.
About the Author
Sue Townsend, with The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 A (1982) and The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole(1984), was Britain's bestselling author of the 1980s. Her other hugely successful novels include Adrian Mole: The Wildnerness Years (1993), The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55 A ) (2001), Number Ten (2002) and most recently Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (2004). Most of her books are published by Penguin. She is also well known as a playwright. She lives in Leicester.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Excellent, witty story about how the Queen survives living on a council estate with her family. A snapshot of real life in Britain today. If you ever thought that the Royal family has no idea of how ordinary folk live, you will love reading about how the Royals deal with our everyday problems. My sympathy is with the Queen! I hope she reads this - its hilarious! Leaves you wanting to know more.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Disapointing. Did not realise book was only a few short pieces from a larger book, so for us was a waste of money. Amazon service and supplier excellent as always.
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Released by Penguin as part of a `taster' book series given away with The Times and Starbucks in 2007, this is an extract from Sue Townsend's 1992 book THE QUEEN AND I, which imagines Britain as a republic with the Royal Family stripped of their wealth and privilege and relocated to a council estate. The problem with the extract is that even in 2007, this would have felt dated. For starters, Princess Diana is still alive and still married to Prince Charles, albeit having doubts about her marriage. In 1992 this was probably hilarious. Knowing the history in between, it loses something.
The extract mainly focuses on the Queen who has no money, has been forced to apply for benefits but in the meantime has nothing to feed her family with. Townsend clearly feels a lot of affection for the Queen, who's struggling to cope with where she's wound up and still trying to make the best of it, even though Prince Phillip is confined to bed with depression. There's satire to be had from her battles with the DSS to get emergency cash to tide her over and a hint at something more sinister going on with forces determined to crush the Royal Family once and for all.
Characters are broad brush at best, plot is slow as the novel seems to me more about introspection and everything just feels out of date. All in all, this extract, while inoffensive wouldn't make me rush to buy THE QUEEN AND I and in truth, it left me feeling meh about the whole thing.
The extract mainly focuses on the Queen who has no money, has been forced to apply for benefits but in the meantime has nothing to feed her family with. Townsend clearly feels a lot of affection for the Queen, who's struggling to cope with where she's wound up and still trying to make the best of it, even though Prince Phillip is confined to bed with depression. There's satire to be had from her battles with the DSS to get emergency cash to tide her over and a hint at something more sinister going on with forces determined to crush the Royal Family once and for all.
Characters are broad brush at best, plot is slow as the novel seems to me more about introspection and everything just feels out of date. All in all, this extract, while inoffensive wouldn't make me rush to buy THE QUEEN AND I and in truth, it left me feeling meh about the whole thing.
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