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Zusatztext “Kuhn’s first novel ought to find an avid readership among the filmgoers who flocked to The King’s Speech and The Queen . . . . An affectionate! sympathetic but also unstinting look at the woman inside the sovereign.” Informationen zum Autor William Kuhn is a biographer and historian, and the author of Reading Jackie , Democratic Royalism , Henry & Mary Ponsonby , and The Politics of Pleasure . He lives in Boston, Massachusetts. This is his first novel. His next book, a work of historical fiction, explores the friendship over nearly forty years of Isabella Stewart Gardner and John Singer Sargent. Klappentext After decades of service and years of watching her family's troubles splashed across the tabloids! Britain's Queen is beginning to feel her age. She needs some proper cheering up. An unexpected opportunity offers her relief: an impromptu visit to a place that holds happy memories—the former royal yacht! Britannia ! now moored near Edinburgh. Hidden beneath a skull-emblazoned hoodie! the limber Elizabeth (thank goodness for yoga) walks out of Buckingham Palace into the freedom of a rainy London day and heads for King's Cross to catch a train to Scotland. But a characterful cast of royal attendants has discovered her missing. In uneasy alliance a lady-in-waiting! a butler! an equerry! a girl from the stables! a dresser! and a clerk from the shop that supplies Her Majesty's cheese set out to find her and bring her back before her absence becomes a national scandal. Mrs Queen Takes the Train is a clever novel! offering a fresh look at a woman who wonders if she! like Britannia herself! has! too! become a relic of the past. William Kuhn paints a charming yet biting portrait of British social! political! and generational rivalries—between upstairs and downstairs! the monarchy and the government! the old and the young. Comic and poignant! fast paced and clever! this delightful debut tweaks the pomp of the monarchy! going beneath its rigid formality to reveal the human heart of the woman at its center. Zusammenfassung An absolute delight of a debut novel by William Kuhn—author of Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books — Mrs Queen Takes the Train wittily imagines the kerfuffle that transpires when a bored Queen Elizabeth strolls out of the palace in search of a little fun, leaving behind a desperate team of courtiers who must find the missing Windsor before a national scandal erupts. Reminiscent of Alan Bennett’s The Uncommon Reader , this lively, wonderfully inventive romp takes readers into the mind of the grand matriarch of Britain’s Royal Family, bringing us an endearing runaway Queen Elizabeth on the town—and leading us behind the Buckingham Palace walls and into the upstairs/downstairs spaces of England’s monarchy. ...
