Sue Townsend, bestselling author of the Adrian
Mole series, will have you laughing out loud with
Rebuilding Coventry - a satire on modern Britain
and the battle of the sexes. 'There are two things
that you should know about me immediately: the first is
that I am beautiful, the second is that yesterday I
killed a man. Both things were accidents . . .' When
Midlands housewife Coventry Dakin kills her neighbour in
a wild bid to prevent him from strangling his wife, she
goes on the run. Finding herself alone and friendless in
London she tries to lose herself in the city's maze of
streets. There, she meets a bewildering cast of
eccentric characters. From Professor Willoughby D'Eresby
and his perpetually naked wife Letitia to Dodo, a
care-in the-community inhabitant of Cardboard City, all
of whom contrive to change Coventry in ways she could
never have foreseen . . . Rebuilding Coventry
is Sue Townsend's brilliant, laugh-out-loud satire on
modern Britain and the unfinished battle of the
sexes. 'Splendidly witty . . . the social
observations sharp and imaginative' Sunday
Express 'Nasty, naughty, funny, brash. I found
this swift novel a delight' Joseph Heller 'A satire
in the best, Johnsonian tradition, with nothing and no
one spared' New Statesman Sue Townsend is
Britain's favourite comic author. Her hugely successful
novels include eight Adrian Mole books, The Public
Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55¾),
Number Ten, Ghost Children, The Queen
and I, Queen Camilla and The Woman Who
Went to Bed for a Year, all of which are highly
acclaimed bestsellers. She has also written numerous
well-received plays. She lives in Leicester, where she
was born and grew up.
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