Alice in Brexitland

Brenda from Bristol this book’s for you. Pour yourself a drink and sit down for an hour with this funny, very clever, brilliantly illustrated book that will give you your much-needed respite from the absurdity of British politics and its political elite. Parodying a host of politicians, it features characters such as "'Dave' the Camerarabbit, who Alice follows down the Brexithole", Nigel Farage as the "inanely grinning Cheshire Cat", Jeremy Corbyn as the "Corbyn-pillar, smoking a hookah all day on his toadstool and being no help to anyone", Theresa May as the "hard-Brexit-pushing Queen of Heartlessness", the nonsensical "Tweedleboz and Tweedlegove" and Trump as Trumpty Dumpty, "sitting on a wall he wants the Mexicans to pay for". Everybody is fair game in this hilarious reworking of Lewis Carroll’s craziest characters.

"When I trigger Article 50, Britain will be thrown into space and fly straight into the sun. Only then shall we be truly independent."

I feel like 'Have I Got News For You' and 'Unspun With Matt Forde' had a lovechild that somehow ended up being a book (genes are weird like that) and that book turned out to be a masterpiece of political satire and truly the pinnacle of 21st century literature.

So this isn't my usual genre but I thought the idea was quirky and I gave it ago and I have to say I was surprised to admit I liked it, Written in the style of the original Alice in Wonderland with all its charm its amazing how well all our politicians fitted in to the madness of Wonderland, we have David Cameron as the white rabbit, Jeremy Corbyn as the spaced out caterpillar, Nigel Farage as the Cheshire cat and Theresa May as the Queen of Hearts and more besides. Sadly it will date very quickly, but at the end I found I truly agreed with the author that we have been thrown into a mad mad world of Brexit, maybe the follow up will be if we as a country survive Brexit in one piece.

Alice in Brexitland

Lucien Young, penning as Leavis Carroll, has totally nailed so many absurdities in this parody, Alice in Brexitland. It's inspired, laugh out loud funny and the line drawings, in the style of the Tenniel are contemporary and amazing.

In a format which runs true to the original text, Alice falls down the rabbit hole and encounters various characters. They're brilliant; Farage is the Cheshire Twat, there's an encounter with Trumpty Dumpty, Tweedleboz and Tweedlegov. There are so many glorious throw away lines in the text, it's difficult to chose a favourite. Every one pokes fun at the nonsense of partisan politics, so called democracy and the Establishment in general. This is short, sharp and exposes the nonsense the electorate lives with having supposedly exercised their democratic right. Very funny, very clever, very readable. I'd put the text on every exam syllabus to encourage true freedom of thought.

My thanks to the publisher for a review copy via Netgalley.

I read this hilarious book last night and laughed all the way through it.
Based on Alice in Wonderland it follows Alice on her adventures in Brexitland meeting with various characters all really well matched to their political alter egos. Well worth a read

Oh woah! What a great book!
I was grinning throughout the whole thing and was shocked at how funny the satire was.
I ended up loving it far more than the real Alice in Wonderland. The way the author made light of a serious topic was just wonderful.
I think I'm mainly shocked at how much I enjoyed it because I don't know a hell of a lot about politics, but it was clearly enough to understand and enjoy this book.
It made some really valid points and kind of helped my understanding of the matter in a silly way.
I liked that the style of illustrations stayed true to the original style, but also mimicked the funny political cartoons you see in newspapers. That enhanced the appeal for me.
The ending was amazing too and left you wondering what really happened, which was a good open ending perhaps because things were still undecided about Brexit on the time of writing this? I don't know, but it was great.

Really enjoyed the post-truth poem as well.

Overall, this was extremely humorous and had some points that really made me think. I think it could be something classes should read in future history lessons haha!