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01559aam a2200301Ii 4500 001 D911DC7E227C11ECA4F9151B2FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211001010014 008 210715s2021 enk 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1472994388 020 $a 9781472994387 035 $a (OCoLC)1262784198 040 $a AU@ $b eng $c AU@ $e rda $d ATCDL $d IOU $d SILO 082 04 $a 823.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Mount, Ferdinand, $d 1939- $e author. 245 10 $a Making nice / $c Ferdinand Mount. 264 1 $a London, England : $b Bloomsbury Continuum, $c 2021. 300 $a 248 pages ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a 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. 650 0 $a Journalists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Public relations $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Satirical literature. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20221004015705.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211001010117.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D911DC7E227C11ECA4F9151B2FECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search