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Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminster traveling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen finds herself taking out a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Duff read though it is, the following week her choice proves more enjoyable and awakens in Her Majesty a passion for reading so great that her public duties begin to suffer. And so, as she devours work by everyone from Hardy to Brookner to Proust to Beckett, her equerries conspire to bring the Queen's literary odyssey to a close.
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The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett
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- Released
- 2007
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- Title
- The Uncommon Reader
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Alan Bennett
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 128
- ISBN10
- 0374280967
- ISBN13
- 9780374280963
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Humor, Contemporary Fiction, Classics, Friendship, British Literature, England, Great Britain, English Literature, Novellas, London, About Books, Writers, Queens, Reading, Libraries
- First published
- 2007
- Original title
- The Uncommon Reader
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminster traveling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen finds herself taking out a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Duff read though it is, the following week her choice proves more enjoyable and awakens in Her Majesty a passion for reading so great that her public duties begin to suffer. And so, as she devours work by everyone from Hardy to Brookner to Proust to Beckett, her equerries conspire to bring the Queen's literary odyssey to a close.