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Trudi Madly

Obliquely

Peter Spencer

KEY SELLING POINTS
A comic and satirical political thriller told through the eyes of a nine-year-old girl.
An insider’s view of the political world from an author who knows it well and has reported on it for over forty
years.

Trudi Penislow is a seriously feisty (and precocious) nine-year-old Cornish girl on a mission to save the world
from climate catastrophe. Though her dad’s a former Prime Minister she reckons she’s got the better handle on
political activism. Taking her lead from the famous Scandinavian activist Feta Cheeseburg, she aims for
swifter results with the help of her grumpy cat, Fang, and her talkative parrot, Lady Casement. Unfortunately, her
online efforts enrage hostile political actors who believe that disruption caused in the west by global warming
will work to their advantage.

Sensing danger, Trudi’s dad seeks help from the Foreign Secretary, who’s an old chum. Dazzlingly incompetent
though the man is, he does get a couple of colourful, female MI6 operatives on the case. Which is lucky, as
Trudi’s in imminent danger of being kidnapped. She likes to hope her strategic brilliance will make it ever so
easy to trample all over her enemies.

But there are lots of them, and they’re not stupid …

Peter Spencer, after forty years covering Westminster politics first for LBC then Sky News, is now a freelance
presenter on GB News, where he provides neutral (if at times frivolous) political analysis. He also writes a
weekly political column for Malestrom magazine. Peter has a waterfront home on Cornwall’s rugged north
coast, where he handfeeds seagulls as well as writing novels.

Comparative title: 9781803134864 Trudi's Tricks ... Westminster Wobbles (Oct 2022)

Publication Date: 28th June 2024 £9.99 ISBN: 9781805143789
Thema subject category: FU – Humorous fiction
paperback 198 x 129 mm 304 pp Portrait Author location: Cornwall

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