Rebuilding Coventry (Audible Audio Edition) Sue Townsend Kate Lock Whole Story Audiobooks Books
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Coventry Dakin's tale begins with her accidental killing of her neighbour. Forced to flee the law, she deserts her council estate, her boring husband and two demanding children for the anonymity of London's cardboard city.
Originally published in 1988, Rebuilding Coventry is a brilliantly observed satire of Eighties Britain and the hypocrisy of the middle and upper classes.
Rebuilding Coventry (Audible Audio Edition) Sue Townsend Kate Lock Whole Story Audiobooks Books
Forget the hilarity of Adrian Mole. This is a different Sue Townsend to what you would know. It still shows off her amazing talent as a writer. I quite enjoyed it, some very witty moments, sad too. Give it a go.Product details
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Rebuilding Coventry (Audible Audio Edition) Sue Townsend Kate Lock Whole Story Audiobooks Books Reviews
Wish I hadn't wasted my money on this boring book.
This, like most of Townsend's work, is dark. There were things that Townsend wanted to comment on that she couldn't do with Mole, so she has made this protagonist a homeless woman on the run. However, as usual she is on form skewering the middle class, the upper-middle class granola crunching Gucci Socialists, and a society that allows people to fall so far. There are less laughs in this book, and there is a lot more darkness. But it is still Townsend, and her fans should give this one a try.
Didn't like it at all.
More action happens in this 134-page novella than I have read in novels four times its size. The heroine, Coventry Dakin, begins the novel by stating, "I am beautiful and yesterday I killed a man." From here, we go on a whirlwind journey, as Coventry eludes the authorities, abandoning her controlling husband and the two children she loves. She runs to London, lives as a homeless person, then as a domestic, and even stoops to one incident of prostitution.
Meanwhile, the brother she loves, Sidney, is off in Portugal with his wife, Ruth, and is no help to Coventry. There is the police inspector obsessed with capturing her, in a very Inspector Javert style. There is the relieved widow of the man Coventry presumably killed. And, there is the question that Coventry doesn't need to be running away at all. How could she have killed a man more than twice her size by hitting him on the back of the head with an action figure?
Sue Townsend's style is witty, acerbic, fast-paced, and incredibly different. It is amazing the characters she creates, and the situations she puts them in, and the novella is over almost as soon as you start it. Townsend is indeed a rare and gifted writer, and this book is a very worthy read.
This is another laugh-out-loud book by Sue Townsend, one of my favourite authors.
Coventry Dakin is married to Derek, a boring man whose sole passion is tortoises. They have two half-grown children, John and Mary.
One afternoon, Coventry spots her neighbour Gerald Fox attempting to strangle his wife, rushes over to intervene and bangs him on the head with an Action Man. Unfortunately, he falls down dead; in a panic Coventry runs away to London. This book is about her life on the run, alone, penniless and without possessions. She has just been cleaning the chimney so she is covered in soot.
At one point, Coventry gets a job as a live-in housekeeper for a professor’s family where the wife, a psychologist, prances around naked all day. Their grownup son is “in a state of ontological insecurity” and has stopped eating. (It’s difficult for the children of psychologists/intellectuals with highly developed brow chakras and no grounding to become psychologically healthy human beings.)
The house was in an awful mess since it had never been cleaned. Coventry gets washed, gets a few good meals inside her and is presented with clean clothes; however, when the couple find out she’s wanted for murder, she’s soon chucked out on the streets again.
Sue Townsend was a brilliant writer and had a knack for portraying both the speech of the various layers of society and at the same time the various things going on in the outer world. In this book we get a glimpse of what it must be like to be homeless.
I highly recommend this excellent, hilarious book to Sue Townsend fans, who haven’t yet read it, and to others who need a good laugh.
As a life-long fan of Sue Townsend, I found this book less than her best. It started off promising but just trickled away.
It's well written and funny, but Sue Townsend also manages to deliver quite a sad story here as well. I wasn't disappointed, but don't expect Adrian Mole.
Forget the hilarity of Adrian Mole. This is a different Sue Townsend to what you would know. It still shows off her amazing talent as a writer. I quite enjoyed it, some very witty moments, sad too. Give it a go.
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