Controversy was the buzz word in the publishing world today with news that Theresa May has handed in the manuscript for her autobiography “Thatcher In The Rye”, scheduled for release in September.
Details of the seven figure deal between the Prime Minister and Random House have been hard to come by till now.
This is in keeping with Mrs May’s modus operandi on everything from Brexit to how she intends to handle any emergency until days after it occurs. But a source inside Random House told the Herald confidentially that the manuscript has set alarm bells ringing.
The issue appears to be May’s manuscript is almost a word for word rip off of the famous teenage angst novel “Catcher In The Rye” by reclusive author J. D. Salinger.
The only differences being the name of the central protagonist, Holden Caufield, having been changed to Theresa May.
In addition most of the dialogue has been altered to ironic slogans such as “strong and stable”, something the character is not, and “stability and certainty”, something neither Caufield or May offer.
The source explained the publishing house’s concerns, “She’s probably changed the script enough to get away with what appears blatant plagiarism. With the modifications May has made it actually reads like a post-modern deconstruction of sanity.
But what has upset the commissioning editor is the lack of any detail on what exactly happened when a young Mrs May ran through a field of wheat?”
Nothing. And that was the only reason they commissioned the book in the first place.
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