- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- Year: 2021
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 215x134mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.3kg
- ISBN: 9781472994387
- Product code: 535342
Making Nice
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Plunging into the dubious world of corporate communications, the back rooms of Westminster and the campaign trail in Africa and America, this stinging satire follows the hapless Dickie Prendergast as he takes on a reputation management role at an unscrupulous PR firm.
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The deliciously sharp new novel from Ferdinand Mount, author of the Sunday Times Book of the Year Kiss Myself Goodbye
Ferdinand Mount's stinging satire plunges into the dubious world of London PR firms, the back rooms of Westminster and the campaign trail in Africa and America. We follow the hapless Dickie Pentecost, redundant diplomatic correspondent for a foundering national newspaper, together with his stern oncologist wife Jane, and their daughters Flo, an aspiring ballerina, and the quizzical teenager Lucy.
The whole family find themselves entangled in an ever more alarming series of events revolving around the elusive Ethel (full name Ethelbert), dynamic founder of the soaring public relations agency Making Nice.
With echoes of Evelyn Waugh and The Thick of It, Making Nice is a masterly take on the madness of contemporary society and the limitless human capacity for self-deception.
Ferdinand Mount's stinging satire plunges into the dubious world of London PR firms, the back rooms of Westminster and the campaign trail in Africa and America. We follow the hapless Dickie Pentecost, redundant diplomatic correspondent for a foundering national newspaper, together with his stern oncologist wife Jane, and their daughters Flo, an aspiring ballerina, and the quizzical teenager Lucy.
The whole family find themselves entangled in an ever more alarming series of events revolving around the elusive Ethel (full name Ethelbert), dynamic founder of the soaring public relations agency Making Nice.
With echoes of Evelyn Waugh and The Thick of It, Making Nice is a masterly take on the madness of contemporary society and the limitless human capacity for self-deception.
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Plunging into the dubious world of corporate communications, the back rooms of Westminster and the campaign trail in Africa and America, this stinging satire follows the hapless Dickie Prendergast as he takes on a reputation management role at an unscrupulous PR firm.
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