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How I Killed Margaret Thatcher Anthony Cartwright

How I Killed Margaret Thatcher By Anthony Cartwright

How I Killed Margaret Thatcher by Anthony Cartwright


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Summary

Nine-year old Sean has never seen anything like what happens on the day Margaret Thatcher takes power and his grandad discovers his uncle voted for her. So begins the start of a family secret and the end of Sean's idyllic childhood - until, one day, deciding that someone's got to stop the train of destruction, he sets out for revenge.

How I Killed Margaret Thatcher Summary

How I Killed Margaret Thatcher by Anthony Cartwright

'Judas Iscariot's here, look. Here comes Judas Iscariot...' Nine-year old Sean has never seen anything like what happens on the day Margaret Thatcher takes power and his grandad discovers his uncle voted for her. So begins the start of a family secret and the end of Sean's idyllic childhood in the industrial Midlands-until, one day, deciding that someone's got to stop the train of destruction, he sets out for revenge. A heartbreaking and timely story of a moment of national crisis as felt by one family, How I Killed Margaret Thatcher delivers a devastating English twist on the dictator novel.

How I Killed Margaret Thatcher Reviews

A writer with an unblinking sense of Britain as it is today -- Jonathan Coe
A bittersweet elegy to Britain's battered working classes * Metro *
An elegiac portrayal of Dudley in the 1980s * Guardian *
Cartwright uses the 1980s veil to offer a stinging insight into modern-day politics: often with great humour * We Love This Book *

About Anthony Cartwright

Anthony Cartwright was born in 1973 in Dudley. He worked as an English teacher in schools in London and the Midlands for over ten years, and is currently a First Story writer-in-residence at Abbey Manor College in Lewisham. His debut novel The Afterglow won a Betty Trask award was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize and John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; his second novel Heartland was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was adapted for BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime; his third novel How I Killed Margaret Thatcher was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and was a Fiction Uncovered 2013 selection. His new novel Iron Towns is forthcoming from Serpent's Tail in 2016.

Additional information

GOR004893891
9781781251577
1781251576
How I Killed Margaret Thatcher by Anthony Cartwright
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Profile Books Ltd
2013-04-22
256
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