Number Ten
Autor Sue Townsenden Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mai 2012
'Wickedly entertaining. There is a gem on nearly every page. Nothing escapes Townsend's withering pen. Satirical, witty, observant'Observer
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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 country really thinks of him.
In disguise, they venture into the great unknown: the mean streets of Great Britain.
And for the first time in years, the Prime Minister experiences everything life in this country has to offer - an English cream tea, the kindness of strangers, waiting for trains that never come and treatment in a hospital.
And at last he remembers some of things he once really cared about . . .
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'Poignant, hilarious, heart-rending, devastating'New Statesman
'Hilarious. Sue Townsend's laughter is infectious'Sunday Telegraph Books of the Year
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241958384
ISBN-10: 0241958385
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241958385
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
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
ofThe
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
-
includingThe
Queen
and
I,Number
TenandThe
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.
Recenzii
A
wickedly
entertaining
and
passionate
swipe
at
New
Labour
There is a gem on nearly every page. Nothing escapes Townsend's withering pen. Satirical, witty, observant . . . a clever book
Poignant, hilarious, heart-rending, devastating
A delight. Genuinely funny . . . compassion shines through the unashamedly ironic social commentary
There is a gem on nearly every page. Nothing escapes Townsend's withering pen. Satirical, witty, observant . . . a clever book
Poignant, hilarious, heart-rending, devastating
A delight. Genuinely funny . . . compassion shines through the unashamedly ironic social commentary