![]() ![]() ![]() And so, as she devours work by everyone from Hardy to Brookner to Proust to Samuel Beckett, her equerries conspire to bring the Queen's literary odyssey to a close. This second, more fortunate choice of book awakens in Her Majesty a passion for reading so great that her public duties begin to suffer. Read more upbringing demands she finish it and, so as not to appear rude, she withdraws another. But finding herself at its steps, she goes up to apologise for all the yapping and ends up taking out a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett, last borrowed in 1989. Perhaps you could find him one of our old paperbacks on his way out.' Had the dogs not taken exception to the strange van parked in the royal grounds, the Queen might never have learnt of the Westminster travelling library's weekly visits to the palace. Dustwrapper with minor edge wear but remains good 'Oh Norman,' said the Queen, 'the prime minister doesn't seem to have read any Hardy. Her reading naturally changes her world view and her relationship with people such as the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent advisers. 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. Description for The Uncommon Reader Hardcover. ![]()
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