| 词条 | Rebuilding Coventry |
| 释义 | {{unreferenced|date=September 2011}}{{Infobox book | | name = Rebuilding Coventry | image = File:RebuildingCoventry.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Sue Townsend | country = United Kingdom | language = English | genre = Young adult novel | publisher = Methuen | release_date = 1988 | pages = 155 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback) | isbn = }} Rebuilding Coventry is a 1988 novel written by Sue Townsend about a woman from Middle England who is accused of murdering her neighbour and goes on the run to London, and captures the zeitgeist of England in the 1980s. The protagonist is a self-described beautiful woman with the unlikely name of Coventry Dakin who is thoroughly fed up with her life, generally for reasons of ennui. Her neighbour has been spreading rumours of an illicit affair and whilst the neighbour is strangling his wife, she rushes over to his house, hits him over the head with her son's Action Man and he falls down dead. Coventry then escapes to London and lives as a down-and-out on the streets of the capital, encountering a bizarre series of characters from across the social spectrum. As the novel progresses, it becomes clear through the writing and the protagonist's musings that Coventry has allowed herself to fall into the quagmire that she finds herself in. This is quite typical of Sue Townsend's writing and has become a running theme through most of her novels;{{or-inline|date=October 2016}} a rejection of predestination and that circumstance is governed by the choices of the individual. The novel is also a commentary on Thatcher's Britain and the hypocrisy of the middle and upper classes.{{or-inline|date=October 2016}} In a nod to Townsend's feminist beliefs,{{or-inline|date=October 2016}} Coventry's actions stir feelings of independence in the other women who feature in the novel, emancipating some and causing rebellion in others. She is even able to help manipulate the diversion of four aeroplanes from Gatwick Airport in her quest for freedom at the highest levels of government. {{Sue Townsend}} 4 : 1988 British novels|Novels by Sue Townsend|Novels set in London|Methuen Publishing books |
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