The Queen And I Av Sue Townsend

<p><b>NOW A MAJOR TV ADAPTATION STARRING DAVID WALLIAMS & SAMANTHA BOND</b><br><br><b><i>The Queen and I</i></b><b> is a hilarious satire on modern Britain and an exploration of what it really means to be human, by the bestselling author of the Adrian Mole series.</b><br><b>____________<br><br></b><b><i>The Royals, they''re just like us . . . </i></b><br><br>THE MONARCHY HAS BEEN DISMANTLED<br><br>When a Republican party wins the General Election, their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets and titles and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands. <br><br>Exchanging Buckingham Palace for a two-bedroomed semi in Hell Close (as the locals dub it), 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. <br><br>But is their breeding sufficient to allow them to rise above their changed circumstance or deep down are they really just like everyone else?<br>____________<br><br><b>''No other author could imagine this so graphically, demolish the institution so wittily and yet leave the family with its human dignity intact'' </b><i>The Times</i><br><br><b>''Absorbing, entertaining . . . the funniest thing in print since Adrian Mole'' </b><i>Daily Telegraph</i><br><br><b>''Kept me rolling about until the last page'' </b><i>Daily Mail</i></p>