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'A Times leader calls for the dismantling of the monarchy, and a week later it comes to pass. A Republican government wins the election in 1992, and overnight the royal family is stripped of its regal underpinnings and dispatched by the new prime minister... to live on a hellhole council estate in the Midlands. I can think of no other author who could imagine this outrage so graphically, demolish the institution so wittily and yet leave the family with its human dignity intact, as Sue Townsend has'
Valerie Grove, The Times
'Certainly the most absorbing, entertaining and escapist, the funniest thing in print since Adrian Mole'
Ruth Rendell, Daily Telegraph
'Full of sharp-eyed, delicious sentimentality the hero of The Queen and I is not the Royal Family but poverty ... A best-selling account of how bad things really are at the other end of the carpet'
Anthony Barnett, Guardian
ISBN:9780749313524
