My thoughts on the book;

Not read by me, but picked up in a local charity shop as I thought it might be one my Mum would like. She has now given it back to me, and said it wasn't great, awarding it just six stars out of ten, as she felt the cover was misleading, as it wasn't what the book was about.

(Yes, I did tell her "Well, you can't judge a book by it's cover...", and received a thick ear for my trouble...)

;-)

Below review / text taken from; http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Pearly-Queen-ebook/dp/B005I4D9PQ/;

"From the Back Cover;

The Pearly Queen was really Aunt Edie. She was thirty-nine, had a good job in a factory, lived in a flat just off Camberwell Green, and had never married. Her fiance had drowned in the Thames when she was a girl and since then she had been on her own, though not from choice. Everyone loved Aunt Edie - but especially the Andrews family.

Jack Andrews was having a tough time. He'd come back from the First World War to find his wife had 'got religion'. She'd got it so badly she finally went off, left Jack and the three children, and joined Father Peter's League of Repenters. She never really came home again.

Jack and the children managed as best they could, but things were pretty tough when Aunt Edie turned up. The first thing she did was give her cousin, Maud Andrews, a piece of her mind, but when that didn't do any good, Edie moved in and took over the Andrews family. For the first time in years life began to look good again. Aunt Edie was warm, generous, kind, and above all she was their very own Pearly Queen."

My glamorous assistant, the lovely Amber, and who is incidentally, my wife too (yes, I broke the cardinal rule; a stage magician should never marry his assistant) will be leaving this book in one of the shopping baskets mounted on a Barclays Cycle Hire (or "Boris") bike that is currently in a bay at the St. Mary Axe docking station, Houndsditch, near the Gherkin building, London EC3A.

It'll have a yellow "PICK ME UP" note stuck on its front, featuring an all new random free gift, and be in a clear plastic bag.

You can see the location at this Google Maps link;

http://goo.gl/maps/i1Sq.

...and the website for The Barclays Bike Hire scheme giving details and more on all the locations is here;

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/cycling/14808.aspx, with the online map and system status area located at;

https://web.barclayscyclehire.tfl.gov.uk/maps.



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