Seems interesting. :)

From the back:
In 'The Queen and I' Adrian Mole's creator has hit on a simple, clever idea and she sustains the fun superbly. She imagines that the last election was won by the People's Republican Party, with a bit of subliminal help from the television technicians' union. The Royal Family has to be relocated. They are allotted accommodation in Hellebore Close, known to it's residents as Hell Close, on a Midlands housing estate.
Her estate dwellers are authentic in the mixture of bafflement, suspicion and good humour with which they accept the poshos; "How did you talk to somebody whose head you were used to finding on a stamp?".

Paperback, 239 pages. First published in 1992 by Methuen London. This edition published in 1993 by Mandarin Paperbacks.

I found a Finnish edition of the book from Sysmä bookfair this weekend, so I'm reading it instead. I still think this idea is hilarious, I did like Adrian Mole books as a kid.

This is now available.

Picked this up at the meet today. I had already passed the book pile on, when someone said this book was so funny, and then I got interested. I haven't read a single Adrian Mole book. Let's see.

This was moderately funny. I know next to nothing about royal families in Britain or elsewhere, so maybe just couldn't appreciate some of the humour. The ending was a bit of a cop-out, though.

To be released.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

at OBCZ Pilkku (a mailbox on the fence at Limingantie 103)

Found in OBCZ Pilkku at 11.15.

My son and I directed our daily walk towards Limingantie today to make our first Pilkku release. Since I haven't read anything by Townsend yet (I have a couple of Adrian Mole books on my tbr pile) I decided to take this book home with me. Having lived in the UK, I love anything to do with the British and am very much looking forward to reading this book.

This wasn't as hilarious as I thought it would be - at first I wasn't sure whether it was funny at all - but bit by bit the characters grew on me and I ended up laughing out loud several times. My absolute favourite was Harris, with Charles as a close second :D I agree with oofiri about the ending being a cop-out though.

Reserved for Chania, who'll hopefully pass it on to jumpingin as a wishlist surprise.

Thanks so much for this book - I've read "Queen Camilla" by Townsend before and it was so funny - so I look forward to read this too!

I found this book extremely funny, better than Queen Camilla, in fact. It was also strangely warm and comforting book, I think. Only the last chapter was a bit disappointing.

Jumpingin didn't have this on her wishlist anymore, so it wil go to my avl's for now on.

Leaving this to MediaCafe.

Picked up this book at Kokkola BC meeting. Thanks Chania!

It's time for this book to travel on. I left the book in the hotel's lobby bar book shelf next to other holiday reading.