Book description
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally funny and brilliantly true portrait of Britain told through four generations of one family.
'A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become' Rachel Joyce
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Subtitled "A Novel in Seven Occasions" – from the VE Day celebrations in 1945 to their anniversary, mid-pandemic, 75 years later – Bournville is Jonathan Coe's latest and perhaps most ambitious entry in what's starting to look like a career-long, non-chronological chronicle of post-war British history and the national character: sometimes told as drama, sometimes as comedy, sometimes as satire, but always in a way which is both deeply perceptive and deceptively light touch.
Like his 2018 novel Middle England – possibly the only good thing to come out of Brexit, and certainly the only thing which has helped me…
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That’s the situation facing an ordinary family man with two children, a…
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