Bournville

Bournville
Jonathan Coe
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Trade Paperback
h234 x 153mm - 368pg
3 Nov 2022 UK
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9780241517390
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A new state of the nation novel from the bestselling author of Middle England, spanning the huge social change that has taken place in Britain from 1945 to 2020In the Birmingham suburb of Bournville, a family celebrate VE Day in 1945. With the joy of such an occasion there also come larger national questions about the nature of the horrific war the country has just been through. Following this family through generations as they navigate seventy-five years of drastic social change, from wartime nostalgia and English exceptionalism to the royal family, the World Cup and coronavirus, domestic secrets and national myths leave characters and a country adrift, bewildered and divided. A novel of rare humour and humanity, holding up a mirror reflecting our country, our history and ourselves.
Bourneville is a wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become . . . it offers both a big picture window that opens out on the social changes between VE Day and the end of lockdown, and a small intimate window that reveals one family' s struggle through three generations . . . Told with compassion, steadiness, decency and always a glint in the eye, this is a novel that both challenges and delights. For anyone who has felt lost in the past six years, it is like meeting an ally -- Rachel Joyce, author of Miss Benson' s Beetle Coe - a writer of uncommon decency - reminds us that the way out of this mess is through moderation, through compromise, through that age-old English ability to laugh at ourselves * Observer on Middle England * A pertinent, entertaining study of a nation in crisis * Financial Times on Middle England * Middle England is a full-blooded state of the nation novel, and it brings us bang up-to-date * Sunday Times on Middle England *
Jonathan Coe was born a few miles from Bournville in 1961. The author of political satires such as What a Carve Up! and Number 11, and family sagas such as The Rotters' Club and The Rain Before It Falls, his novels have won prizes at home and abroad, including Costa Novel of the Year and the Prix du Livre Europeen (both for Middle England).
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780241517390
Published: 3 Nov 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Viking
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Spine: 40mm
Weight: 700g
Pages: 368

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