Number Ten Townsend, Sue

Sue Townsend — the mind behind Adrian Mole — turns her satirical eye on 10 Downing Street, where a new Labour Prime Minister has just moved in. Edward Clare is earnest, well-meaning, and hopelessly out of his depth. His wife can't stand the place. His staff are barely holding it together. The building itself is crumbling. What follows is a sharp, absurd, and oddly prescient comedy of political dysfunction, spin doctors, and the machinery of power grinding against human incompetence. Townsend writes with the same wicked wit that made her diaries legendary, but here she's skewering the political class — and it's glorious. If you loved *The Thick of It* or just enjoy watching the powerful squirm, this is your book.