Making Nice - Softcover

Mount, Ferdinand

 
9781472992895: Making Nice
Softcover
ISBN 10: 147299289X ISBN 13: 9781472992895
Verlag: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2022

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A deliciously funny political satire from the bestselling author of Cold Cream and the Sunday Times Book of the Year Kiss Myself Goodbye.

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Ferdinand Mount was born in 1939, the son of a steeplechase jockey, and brought up on Salisbury Plain. After being educated at Eton and Oxford, he made various false starts as a children's nanny, a gossip columnist, bagman to Selwyn Lloyd, and leader-writer on the doomed Daily Sketch. He later surfaced, slightly to his surprise and everyone else's, as head of Margaret Thatcher's Policy Unit and later editor of The Times Literary Supplement. Apart from political columns and essays, he has written a six-volume series of novels, A Chronicle of Modern Twilight, which began with The Man Who Rode Ampersand, based on his father's racing life, and included Of Love And Asthma, which won the Hawthornden Prize for 1992. He also writes what he calls Tales of History and Imagination, including Umbrella, which the historian Niall Ferguson called 'quite simply the best historical novel in years'. His most recent titles for Bloomsbury Continuum include Soft: A Brief History of Sentimentality, Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall, from Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson, Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca and the novel Making Nice.

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The deliciously sharp new novel from Ferdinand Mount, author of the Sunday Times Book of the Year Kiss Myself Goodbye



Ferdinand Mount's stinging satire plunges into the dubious world of London PR firms, the back rooms of Westminster and the campaign trail in Africa and America. We follow the hapless Dickie Pentecost, redundant diplomatic correspondent for a foundering national newspaper, together with his stern oncologist wife Jane, and their daughters Flo, an aspiring ballerina, and the quizzical teenager Lucy. The whole family find themselves entangled in an ever more alarming series of events revolving around the elusive Ethel (full name Ethelbert), dynamic founder of the soaring public relations agency Making Nice.



With echoes of Evelyn Waugh and The Thick of It, Making Nice is a masterly take on the madness of contemporary society and the limitless human capacity for self-deception.

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Verlag
Bloomsbury Continuum
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
147299289X
ISBN 13 
9781472992895
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
256
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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