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Number Ten

Autor Sue Townsend
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 mai 2012
Number Tenis the brilliantly funny political satire by Sue Townsend, bestselling author of the Adrian Mole series

'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

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