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Queen Camilla

By: Sue Townsend
Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore
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THE BRILLIANTLY FUNNY SEQUEL TO THE QUEEN AND I FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADRIAN MOLE SERIES

What if being Royal was a crime?

The UK has come over all republican. The Royal Family exiled to an Exclusion Zone with the other villains and spongers. And to cap it all, the Queen has threatened to abdicate.

Yet Prince Charles is more interested in root vegetables than reigning ... unless his wife Camilla can be Queen in a newly restored monarchy.

But when a scoundrel who claims to be the couple's secret love-child offers to take the crown off their hands, the stage is set for a right Royal show down.

And the question for Camilla (and rest of the country) will be: Queen of the vegetable patch or Queen of England?

'Brilliantly satirical' Evening Standard

'One of our finest living comic writers' The Times

'Brilliantly funny' Closer Fiction Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Political Royalty Satire Women's Fiction Funny Feel-Good Comedy Witty Marriage Middle East
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I found this story very funny, and beautifully read. It is Sue Townsend at her best.

Very Funny

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Narration good but story irritating. Loved the dogs and their characters but found it hard to keep track of the rather short chapters which seemed to jump about a bit. Not nearly as good or as funny as The Queen and I.

Disappointing

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I’ve read this book more than once in the past and enjoy the story. That’s all I have to say about the actual text of the book.

I have a bigger issue though. The narration in this version is just….something. The narrator manages the accents of the majority of characters very well, but there are a couple that are really inappropriate. To hear a white woman attempting to speak like an Asian man or as a West Indian guy is all kinds of wrong. It came across as though they were trying to perpetuate racial stereotypes or actually just being unconsciously racist.

Great story but….

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Fabulous
I laughed the whole way through ….. thank you for such a great book… people and dog lovers

Laugh out loud

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I held off buying this book for years because I do love The Queen and I, I wish I'd held off completely. The book is ok but in comparison to it's predecessor, the book is slow and doesn't seem to grasp the characters in quite the same way. I really didn't like the characters of Graham or Boy, although Boy could have been so much more dynamic than he was. Re Graham, I just don't see what this character added to the narrative or flow of the book. There were far fewer laugh out loud moments with this than there was with TQAI, and poor development of younger characters like William and Harry. Overall, for me, this is the worst Sue Townsend book I've ever read.

Disappointing

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