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The Queen and I

By: Sue Townsend
Narrated by: Angela Thorne
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Summary

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
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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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Very, very funny

A fabulous idea for a book (I wonder if any of the royals have read it? I would love to know their opinion!) and I still found it relevant and engaging despite my reading it a decade or so after the fact. Great political satire, great characters, despite many being hugely exaggerated stereotypes, this added to the humour and was just right for this book! Love Sue Townsend, no cringe-worthy cliches in her writing, and this is one of her best.

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so funny

Would you listen to The Queen and I again? Why?

would listen again, so much happening i must of missed some bits while laughing!!
great book for light hearted escapism

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Had me Laughing 😆 all through

Having read 2 of the Mole books 📚 years ago,thought I'd give this one a go,very good.

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Brilliant

Laughed out loud lots! Very funny, very clever and scarily very believable! Classic Sue Townsend!

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great fun

great fun with laugh out loud moments and perfect narrator. almost believe it could happen.

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Entertaining

I turn to this book to lift my spirits ,when life gets a it heavy ,it always lifts me up ,
throughly entertaining .

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Laugh out loud and giggle in between!

If you could sum up The Queen and I in three words, what would they be?

Funny Clever Sharp

What does Angela Thorne bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

A different slant on voice personality

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It made me laugh out loud between giggling and smiling.

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Seriously funny even for a Royalist!

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Wonderfully funny

I loved this book and fount I felt very involved with the chacters which were well portrayed. Excellent narration and the concept of the Royals struggling to cope with life on benefits was very funny. I will listen to this again and again!

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Hilarious

Loved this book. So funny.
The voices are great. Listening to it in 2020 is weird.

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I loved it

I have read this book before and enjoyed it, but listening to the audiobook with the wonderful narration by Angela Thorne made it even more enjoyable. I think this is the best of Sue Townsend's books

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