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Making Nice

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About the Book

Ferdinand Mount’s Making Nice takes place in the murky world of London PR firms, the back rooms of Westminster and on the campaign trail in America and Africa. Our protagonist is the hapless Dickie, lately the diplomatic correspondent for a London financial newspaper. He and his wife Jane, an oncologist, and daughters Flo, an aspiring ballet dancer, and Lucy, a teenager of fourteen, find themselves bound up in an ever more alarming series of unfortunate events, revolving around the shady character of Ethel (Ethelbert), founder of the dubious publication relations agency Making Nice.

With echoes of Evelyn Waugh’s novel Scoop and TV series The Thick of It, as well as thinly veiled portraits of Cambridge Analytica and political personae known to many, Making Nice is a masterly take on the madness of contemporary society. Indeed, if there is one central theme to this most accomplished novel, it is the limitless human capacity for self-deception.

This is Ferdinand Mount at his very best. Making Nice is something that only a man with his intelligence, wit, perception and sense of the ridiculous could write and pull off so brilliantly. Following the critical and commercial success of his family memoir Kiss Myself Goodbye, which read at times like a novel, Mount’s devoted fans will not be disappointed with this raucous and highly enjoyable work of fiction.



Table of Contents:

1 Champing
2 Smiley Face
3 Hi-Vis
4 The Real Greek
5 Board Games
6 On Safari
7 Flo Flown
8 Jerrybuilt
9 Ghosting
10 Spinland
11 In the Cockpit
12 The Golden Jacket
13 The Locator
14 Lost and Found

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About the Author :
Ferdinand Mount is a novelist, essayist and former editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1991 to 2002. He was previously head of the Number Ten Policy Unit under Margaret Thatcher. As a journalist, he has contributed regular columns to the Spectator, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times. His novel Of Love and Asthma, part of a six-volume series, A Chronicle of Modern Twilight, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1992. He lives in North London with his family.

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Ferdinand Mount’s exquisite writing draws you into a gorgeously horrid world of lies, where all authenticity is faked, and where the biggest deceptions are the ones we practise upon ourselves. Perhaps you recognise the place he’s talking about. He exposes such cold truths with such warmth – I am in eternal awe of his writing, wherever I find it. Mount’s storytelling is irresistible One of our finest prose stylists Making Nice is the funniest, shrewdest, most elegant novel I have read in years. What will Mount conjure up next? …like all his novels…show his gifts for comedy, physical description and for capturing idiosyncratic mannerisms. ...This pacey book is great fun to read. At Making Nice’s heart is a serious lesson about the fine line between success and scandal, truth and lies. A razor-sharp comedy of political misfortunes. Mr Mount has written a satire to be consumed in one sitting, a pointed critique of the modern world delivered with pluck and verve. [Mount] is very good on behavioural quirks, often evoking them with unexpected analogies… Making Nice is a comedy of manners with satirical trappings, and highly enjoyable, too. Seldom can a satirical novel have proved more pertinent. So begins a rollicking rollercoaster ride through modern politics…showcasing Mount’s pitch-perfect comic ear and a keen eye for caricature.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781472994387
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Continuum
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Width: 135 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1472994388
  • Publisher Date: 30 Sep 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 328 gr


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