By Jenny Haynes

ISBN-10: 1312438835

ISBN-13: 9781312438835

The Adventures of Thelma the Uncivil Servant tells the story of Louise Benedict, by way of day a committed British civil servant, by way of evening a would-be stand-up comedian hawking her acerbic wit round the pubs and golf equipment of London and past.

Louise enjoys either one of her jobs, intercourse and alcohol in pretty well equivalent degree. whilst she casually falls into an affair with a senior executive minister, she is briskly and hilariously stuck up in a plot to lead to the downfall of the Conservative executive she now not so secretly despises.

Over the process 10 days her loyalties may be sorely proven as she struggles to discover definitely the right factor to do, hampered merely by means of having the morals of an alley cat.

Naturally the plot could not come at a worse time as her degree occupation is simply starting off. Will Thelma the Uncivil Servant journey to the rescue of her state, or maintain her eyes at the prize - a coveted stay television gig - and play it for laughs.

Whatever she does will contain drunkenness and debauchery on her long-held conception that "If you could spell it, you are able to do it."

Jenny Haynes used to be a device of the institution, or civil servant, and an occasional performer of stand-up comedy. She strenuously continues that she wasn't there and she or he did not do these issues. She has due to the fact that relocated from pricey outdated Blighty to hotter climes, (no, no longer into the witness safeguard application) and is a disgustingly chuffed complete time tree hugger.

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