TY - ABST T1 - Queen Camilla Y1 - 2006 A1 - Sue [Susan Lillian] Townsend (1946-2014) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire set in a dystopian England that is an extremely poor part of the United States and crime is so bad that the elderly feared to leave their homes after dark and children were not allowed to play outside at any time. To save money on pensions, the old were encouraged to commit suicide. Some council estates had been converted to Exclusion Zones were various misfits from criminals to the morbidly obese were sent, could not leave, and had to wear ankle braces. The Royal Family were among those sent to an Exclusion Zone, and much of the novel is about the relations among the various members. At the end of the novel, the Queen has abdicated, the monarchy has been restored, although must earn its keep, and Charles and Camilla’s son born when they were sixteen and eighteen has been relegated to a mental hospital in France.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Queen and I Y1 - 1992 A1 - Sue [Susan Lillian] Townsend (1946-2014) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire. The U.K. becomes a republic, and the Queen is given a pensioner's flat where she lives with her family. See also 2006 Townsend.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Part republished as The Queen in Hell Close. London: Penguin, 2005. Theatre version as The Queen and I: The Play With Songs. London: Methuen Drama in association with the Royal Court Theatre, 1994 [Songs by Ian Dury and Mickey Gallagher]. Rev. and re-written as The Queen and I: A Play. London: Samuel French, 1996. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mr Smith's privatised penis" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Sue [Susan Lillian] Townsend (1946-2014) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The concluding chapter of an attack on the failure to fully implement the welfare state and the bureaucratic inefficiencies of what was put into place. A dystopia showing how privatization would be worse.

JF - Mr. Bevan's Dream PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London VL - Chatto Counterblast No. 9 U1 -

On cover Why Britain Needs Its Welfare State.

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