The Speaker's Wife - Couverture rigide

Letts, Quentin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1472122003 ISBN 13 : 9781472122001

Editeur : Constable, 2015

Synopsis

Bestselling nonfiction author and journalist Quentin Letts is at his waspish best in his first novel: Westminster intrigue, laugh-aloud satire, moving passages about the human condition and a fairytale love story.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Quentin Letts is political sketch writer for The Times and theatre critic for the Sunday Times. A regular broadcaster on radio and television, he was formerly New York correspondent for The Times, gossip columnist for the Daily Telegraph and parliamentary sketch writer for the Daily Mail. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain. His hobbies are gossip, hymn-singing and cricket. He lives in rural Herefordshire.

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

The Rev Tom Ross's quietly liquid life as chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons is about to be shattered.

A central London church gives sanctuary to a young man wanted by the police for making an anti-Islamic protest.

Parliamentarians attack the Church of England for sheltering a dangerous criminal.

An Islamist mob gathers, furious at the boy's insult.

With secularists demanding that the Church sell hundreds of its under-used buildings, Ross finds himself caught in a world of bribes, violence and political spin. When the old Speaker of the Commons dies and is replaced by a corrupt schemer with a shapely young Russian escort, Ross, at high personal cost, must confront his demons - and the charismatic, white-maned 'Ayatollah of Atheism', Augustus Dymock.


The Speaker's Wife mixes Westminster intrigue and quirky paranormalism with searching depictions of an England which has neglected its beliefs.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Constable
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1472122003
• ISBN 13: 9781472122001
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible