by Alan Bennett 3 stars
Setting: England
120 pages
Published 2007
Ellie's Review
This is a very quick and easy read that's also humorous. It's a cute plot about the Queen of England getting hooked on reading.
Book Summary
The eponymous reader of Alan Bennett's good-natured novella is none other than England's own Queen Elizabeth, who pursues her incorrigible corgis into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, discovers the world of serious literature, and forsakes her duties for the pleasures of obsessive reading. Guided by a former kitchen employee, Her Majesty dives headlong into the works of Thomas Hardy, Marcel Proust, Nancy Mitford, and other literary icons -- while distressed advisers, fearing a constitutional crisis, scheme to divert her from her newfound passion.
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