How I Killed Margaret Thatcher

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'Judas Iscariot's here, look. Here comes Judas Iscariot . . .'

Nine-year old Sean has never seen anything like what happens on the day Margaret Thatcher takes power and his grandad discovers his uncle voted for her. So begins the start of a family secret and the end of Sean's idyllic childhood in the industrial Midlands - until, one day, deciding that someone's got to stop the train of destruction, he sets out for revenge.

A heartbreaking and timely story of a moment of national crisis as felt by one family, How I Killed Margaret Thatcher delivers a devastating English twist on the dictator novel.

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A writer with an unblinking sense of Britain as it is today -- Jonathan Coe
A bittersweet elegy to Britain's battered working classes * Metro *
An elegiac portrayal of Dudley in the 1980s * Guardian *
Cartwright uses the 1980s veil to offer a stinging insight into modern-day politics: often with great humour * We Love This Book *

Author Bio

Anthony Cartwright was born in 1973 in Dudley. He works as an English teacher in East London, having previously worked in factories, a meat-packing plant, pubs, Spitalfields Market and for London Underground. His two previous novels The Afterglow and Heartland have won him a Betty Trask award and two shortlistings for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.