In "King and Joker," Peter Dickinson paints an oxzymoronic picture … of an imaginary British royal family….
On a social level, the members of the royal family are rather like high-wire performers in a circus. If they fall, they have so far to go; there is suspense in the spectacle of their keeping their balance.
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