THE UNCOMMON READER

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. H er reading naturally changes her world view and her relationship with people like the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent ad visers. She comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with much that she has to do. In short, her readi ng is su...[Llegir més]