Dave and Nick: The Year of the Honeymoon

Dave and Nick: The Year of the Honeymoon

by Ann Treneman (Author)

Synopsis

You will not read this story of Dave and Nick anywhere else. Ann Treneman, the sketchwriter for The Times, chronicles all the highlights (and even more of the lowlights) of their extraordinary relationship in a love story that not even Mills & Boon could imagine. Two posh boys who found each other, a bromance to remember, full of love, hate, fratricide, war, riots, bad hair and even worse speeches, not to mention that sexy AV referendum. Through her perceptive sketches, Ann Treneman tells the story of how they dated, flirted with others (including the brooding hulkish Gordon), but eventually came together in a sun-kissed wedding in the Downing Street rose garden. She reveals how Nick struggled to be the perfect political wife while starting a new sub-career as a national hate figure, and chronicles Dave's long and bruising battle with arrogance. She tells the shocking story of their arch rival, the man who killed his brother and got away with it. The nightmare of the grandparents, the mad aunts and uncles, the ambitious kids and the economy that simply would not do as it was told. This is the tale of two men and a screaming baby of a coalition, trying to stay true to each other when surrounded by political mayhem and madness. Laugh? Or cry (with laughter)? How about both?

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Publisher: The Robson Press
Published: 27 Oct 2011

ISBN 10: 1849541647
ISBN 13: 9781849541640

Media Reviews
'Ann Treneman is brilliant. How does she do it? In a word, it's her deadpan. Not a sentence, not a phrase is permitted the tiniest giggle. The author herself remains frozen-faced. The reader is in stitches.' Matthew Parris
Author Bio
Ann Treneman is an award-winning journalist who has been the parliamentary sketchwriter for The Times since September 2003. She has also worked as a feature writer for The Times and The Independent and, previously, was foreign editor of The Observer. She grew up in America but has lived in Britain since 1984. Her first book of sketches, AnnusHorribilis, the Worst Year in British Politics, was published in 2009.