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The Queen and I

By: Sue Townsend
Narrated by: Angela Thorne
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When a Republican party wins the General Election, they strip the royal family of everything and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands.

Exchanging caviar for boiled eggs, servants for a social worker named Trish, the Queen and her family learn what it means to be poor among the great unwashed. Is their breeding sufficient to allow them to rise above their changed circumstance or deep down are they really just like everyone else?

©1992 Sue Townsend (P)2012 AudioGO Ltd
Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Satire Women's Fiction Comedy

Critic Reviews

"Kept me rolling about until the last page." ( Daily Mail)
"Absorbing, entertaining ... the funniest thing in print since Adrian Mole." ( Daily Telegraph)
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(No spoiler) I can’t believe the ending of this book... I was told NEVER to end a story this way in PRIMARY SCHOOL and I’m so disappointed that Sue Townsend broke this rule. Until then it was an entertaining book, performed fantastically.

Entertaining until the last 60sec

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Book was average to start with - final (2 minute) chapter just took it down hill.

Ruined with the Ending

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