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The Uncommon Reader

byAlan Bennett

Who is this book for? Readers interested in literature, humor, and royal narratives.

Topics LiteratureIdentityPowerFriendship
MoodHumorous, Satirical
Female protagonist
HumorSatire
What would happen if the Queen became a reader of taste and discernment rather than of Dick Francis? The answer is a perfect story. 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.

Language

en

Published on

25/03/2021

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781788168069

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