Sue Townsend bestselling author of the Adrian Mole" series will have you laughing out loud with " Rebuilding Coventry"
- a satire on modern Britain & 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 & friendless in London she tries to lose herself in the citys maze of streets. There she meets a bewildering cast of eccentric characters. From Professor Willoughby DEresby & 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 Townsends brilliant laugh-out-loud satire on modern Britain & the unfinished battle of the sexes. " Splendidly witty.. .the social observations sharp & 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 & no one spared". (" New Statesman"). Sue Townsend is Britains favourite comic author. Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books " The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55 )" " Number Ten" " Ghost Children" " The Queen & I" " Queen Camilla" & " 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 & grew up."