The more The Queen reads, the more she begins to ask questions. Gradually as books become her consuming passion, she starts to arrive slightly late at engagements, and becomes less interested in her appearance. With Normon’s helps she develops a huge passion for reading, devouring everything she can get her hands on. She goes back the following week and finds a book by Nancy Mitford which is much more to her taste. Out of courtesy she picks up a book by Ivy Compton-Burnett, and although she does not especially enjoy it, she reads it. She goes inside and finds Normon, a member of her kitchen staff inside. When herding up her unruly corgis one afternoon, The Queen comes across The City of Westminster mobile library parked in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. This is a novella rather than a novel and it would be easy to gobble up these 120 pages in one sitting. I read this the weekend of the Platinum Jubilee which seemed an appropriate time to read it. The latest in my review of London books is The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett.
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