Mrs Queen Takes the Train
by William Kuhn
This book in the same genre as The Uncommon Reader is, and enjoyable for many of the same reasons. It is fictional, but with enough facts mixed in to make it fun to read. (Not a book if you’re taking everything deadly serious.)
The Queen becomes a character with traits that you think you recognize from the newspapers, and some invented, and the rest of the cast of characters are fictional. The storyline is fictional – the Queen is suffering from depression, and wants to go to visit Britannia where she remembers being happy, and takes to the train to Edinburgh. The courtiers scramble to follow her and find her before the news that she has disappeared becomes public.
It’s not the perfect book, but it is a fun summer read.
Dear Anne,
Many thanks for taking the trouble to review my book and to post your review. Mrs. Queen and I feel that you deserve an Order.
Bill Kuhn