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How I Killed Margaret Thatcher

How I Killed Margaret Thatcher

by Anthony Cartwright (Author)

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    Paperback 2012

    $5.70
Synopsis

Judas Iscariot's here, look. Here comes Judas Iscariot . . . Nine-year old Sean has never seen anything like what happens on the day Margaret Thatcher takes power and his grandad discovers his uncle voted for her. So begins the start of a family secret and the end of Sean's idyllic childhood in the industrial Midlands - until, one day, deciding that someone's got to stop the train of destruction, he sets out for revenge.A heartbreaking and timely story of a moment of national crisis as felt by one family, How I Killed Margaret Thatcher delivers a devastating English twist on the dictator novel.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Tindal Street Press
Published: 02 Aug 2012
ISBN 10: 1906994358
ISBN 13: 9781906994358
Book Overview: Why Sean Bull sets out one day to assassinate Margaret Thatcher . . .

Media Reviews
quietly impressive novel redolent of a more tender David Peace, it doesn't trade in shock value so much as a richly observed sense of place and time. Cartwright articulates the sense of deep alienation that Thatcher's strident dogma exposed in those who felt excluded by it. -- David Pollock * The List *
How I Killed Margaret Thatcher is definitely not short on ambition; Cartwright's novel is an engaging read which coheres with the UK's current political zeitgeist. The book's funny moments, which are often very dark indeed, prove another of its triumphs -- Danny Arter * We Love This Book *
Splendid. The voice - of a nine-year-old boy learning quickly how to hate the Prime Minister - is utterly authentic and the plot devastating. * Cathi Unsworth *
A well-written tale of what it was like growing up under Thatcher. The characters are the book's greatest strength -- Sadie Robinson * Socialist Worker *
Author Bio
Anthony Cartwright was born in 1973 in Dudley. He works as an English teacher in East London, having previously worked in factories, a meat-packing plant, pubs, Spitalfields Market and for London Underground. His two previous novels The Afterglow and Heartland have won him a Betty Trask award and two shortlistings for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.