The Uncommon Reader

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Synopsis

"The Uncommon Reader" is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely ( JR Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett and the classics) and intelligently. Her reading naturally changes her world view and her relationship with people like the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent advisers. She comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with much that she has to do. In short, her reading is subversive. The consequence is, of course, surprising, mildly shocking and very funny.

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Published
03/07/2008

Publisher
Profile Books Ltd

ISBN
9781846681332

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"'A masterpiece of comic brevity' Observer 'For all its hilarity The Uncommon Reader has a heartfelt tone. It offers a lament on old age, some thoughts on reticence and a backward glance at a life wasted.' Sunday Times 'An exquisitely produced jewel of a book.' The Times 'pure gold... you would be hard put to find a defter satire on British philistinism... the dialogue is priceless.' Mail on Sunday 'Light, fresh, witty and warm.' Daily Telegraph"