Title: The Uncommon Reader
First published: 2007
Description: 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. Her reading naturally changes her world view and her relationship with people like the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent advisers. She comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with much that she has to do. In short, her reading is subversive. The consequence is, of course, surprising, mildly shocking and very funny.
Subjects: Kings and rulers, Literature, Fiction, Books and reading, Queens, Large type books, Bekannter, Entdeckung, Leseinteresse, Bediensteter, Skönlitteratur, Kings, queens, rulers, Böcker och läsning, Reinas, Libros y lectura, Ficción, Reyes y soberanos, Romans, nouvelles, Livres et lecture, Récits humoristiques, Mœurs et coutumes, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, humorous, general, Elizabeth ii, queen of great britain, 1926-, fiction
Places: Great Britain, Gran Bretaña, Angleterre
People: Elizabeth II Queen of Great Britain (1926-), Königin, II.) Elisabeth (Gro britannien, E lisabeth II (1926- ... ;) reine de Grande-Bretagne), Élizabeth II reine de Grande-Bretagne (1926-)