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Number Ten Sue Townsend

Number Ten By Sue Townsend

Number Ten by Sue Townsend


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Summary

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 thinks of him.

Number Ten Summary

Number Ten by Sue Townsend

Number Ten is 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

Number Ten Reviews

A wickedly entertaining and passionate swipe at New Labour * The Times *
There is a gem on nearly every page. Nothing escapes Townsend's withering pen. Satirical, witty, observant . . . a clever book * Observer *
Poignant, hilarious, heart-rending, devastating * New Statesman *
A delight. Genuinely funny . . . compassion shines through the unashamedly ironic social commentary * Guardian *

About Sue Townsend

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 133/4, 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.

Additional information

GOR004047827
9780241958384
0241958385
Number Ten by Sue Townsend
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
2012-05-10
336
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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