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 GoodbyeFerdinand 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.
CONTRIBUTORS: Ferdinand Mount
EAN: 9781472994387
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 280 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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GENRE: FICTION / Political, FICTION / Satire
WIDTH: 135 cm
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Book Themes:
Central London, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Satirical fiction and parodies, Politics and government
Ferdinand Mount’s exquisite writing draws you into a gorgeously horrid world of lies, where all authenticity is faked, and where the biggest deceptions are the ones we practise upon ourselves. Perhaps you recognise the place he’s talking about. He exposes such cold truths with such warmth – I am in eternal awe of his writing, wherever I find it., Mount’s storytelling is irresistible, One of our finest prose stylists, Making Nice is the funniest, shrewdest, most elegant novel I have read in years. What will Mount conjure up next?, …like all his novels…show his gifts for comedy, physical description and for capturing idiosyncratic mannerisms.
Ferdinand Mount is a novelist, essayist and former editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1991 to 2002. He was previously head of the Number Ten Policy Unit under Margaret Thatcher. As a journalist, he has contributed regular columns to The Spectator, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times. His novel Of Love and Asthma, part of a six-volume series, A Chronicle of Modern Twilight, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1992. He lives in North London with his family.
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The deliciously sharp new novel from Ferdinand Mount, author of the Sunday Times Book of the Year Kiss Myself GoodbyeFerdinand 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.
CONTRIBUTORS: Ferdinand Mount
EAN: 9781472994387
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES:
WEIGHT: 280 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
DATE PUBLISHED:
CITY:
GENRE: FICTION / Political, FICTION / Satire
WIDTH: 135 cm
SPINE:
Book Themes:
Central London, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Satirical fiction and parodies, Politics and government
Ferdinand Mount is a novelist, essayist and former editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1991 to 2002. He was previously head of the Number Ten Policy Unit under Margaret Thatcher. As a journalist, he has contributed regular columns to The Spectator, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times. His novel Of Love and Asthma, part of a six-volume series, A Chronicle of Modern Twilight, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1992. He lives in North London with his family.
