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Middle England combines top-class soap opera storytelling with melancholy insight into what it means to be English * Metro * This is a picture of England that comes from a place of compassion and understanding * inews * A copper bottomed masterpiece -- Barney Norris Sublimely good. Funny, tender, human and intelligent ... the state of the (Brexit) nation novel to end them all. Jonathan Coe's best since What a Carve Up! -- India Knight Coe's comic critique of a divided country dazzles . . . Properly laugh-out-loud funny . . . it is also incisive and brilliant about our divided country and the deep chasms revealed by the vote to leave. Do not miss * The Bookseller * Brilliant. Read it too fast, finished it too soon -- Nigella Lawson Let me add to the chorus of praise forJonathan Coe's new book Middle England. Easily my favourite of his since What a Carve Up!, which did for Thatcherism what Middle England does for Brexit -- John Crace The first great Brexit novel -- Sathnam Sanghera An astute, enlightened and enlightening journey into the heart of our current national identity crisis. Both moving and funny. As we'd expect from Coe -- Ben Elton What is striking about Coe is not so much his flight from Enghlishness as his ambivalent embrace of it * Financial Times * Middle England takes all that is memorable and moving about Coe's body of work and throws it at the present emergency -- Alex Clark * TLS * Slick . . . stylishly engineered . . . you marvel at the extraordinary attention to detail * Spectator * Very funny . . . exceptionally good . . . delightful * BBC Radio 4, Saturday Review * Coe's writing is as smoothly accomplished as ever . . . very funny . . . poignant about the passing of time, the wishing for what has vanished, the decades lost to obscure hatreds * Guardian, 'Book of the Day' * Millions of words have been and will be written on Brexit but few will get to the heart of why it is happening as incisively as Middle England -- John Boyne * Irish Times * In Middle England, Coe shows an understanding of this country that goes beyond what most cabinet ministers can muster . . . he subtly builds a picture that exposes the cracks in society . . . he is a master of satire but pokes fun subtly, without ever being cruel, biting or blatant . . . his light, funny writing makes you feel better * Evening Standard * Coe is an extraordinarily deft plotter...the book zips along...he tackles big ambitious themes, in this case the effect of politics on people's lives, and political opinions on personal relations * Mail on Sunday * A novel for our times . . . complex, human and utterly unique * Stylist * From post-industrial Birmingham to the London riots and the current political gridlock, [Middle England] takes in family, literature and love in a comedy for our times * Guardian * Middle England is a full-blooded state of the nation novel, and it brings us bang up-to-date * Sunday Times * The book everyone is talking about . . [Coe's] affectionately witty attitude to our human foibles is always uplifting . . . superb' * The Times *

This book is sublimely good. State of the (Brexit) nation novel to end them all, but also funny, tender, generous, so human and intelligent about age and love as well as politics -- India Knight Coe can make you smile, sigh, laugh; he has abundant sympathy for his characters * Scotsman * From post-industrial Birmingham to the London riots and the current political gridlock, it takes in family, literature and love in a comedy for our times * Guardian * An astute, enlightened and enlightening journey into the heart of our current national identity crisis. Both moving and funny. As we'd expect from Coe -- Ben Elton Let me add to the chorus of praise for Jonathan Coe's new book Middle England. Easily my favourite of his since What a Carve Up! Which did for Thatcherism what Middle England does for Brexit -- John Crace Jonathan Coe's Middle England is brilliantly insightful on the times we are living in -- Mishal Husain, Books of the Year * Big Issue * This book is sublimely good. State of the (Brexit) nation novel to end them all, but also funny, tender, generous, so human and intelligent about age and love as well as politics -- India Knight The first great Brexit novel -- Sathnam Sanghera Coe's comic critique of a divided country dazzles . . . properly laugh-out-loud funny . . . it is also incisive and brilliant about our divided country and the deep chasms revealed by the vote to leave. Do not miss * The Bookseller * A copper bottomed masterpiece -- Barney Norris The great chronicler of Englishness * Independent * The beauty of Jonathan Coe's new novel, Middle England, is the way it tracks the seemingly unconnected moments that brought Britain to its knees - and with devastating delicacy, too -- Eva Wiseman * Observer * Coe is an extraordinarily deft plotter . . . he tackles big ambitious themes, in this case the effect of politics on people's lives, and political opinions on personal relations * Mail on Sunday * Middle England is a full-blooded state of the nation novel, and it brings us bang up-to-date * Sunday Times * Brilliant -- Nicola Sturgeon Very funny . . . Exceptionally good . . . Delightful -- BBC Radio 4 * Saturday Review * Sparkled with all the acuity of his best novels . . . Uproarious and always on-the-money -- Books of the Year * Evening Standard * Middle England takes all that is memorable and moving about Coe's body of work and throws it at the present emergency -- Alex Clark * TLS * Middle England combines top-class soap opera storytelling with melancholy insight into what it means to be English * Metro * Coe is as funny and tender as ever, restoring some humanity to the tumultuous societal backdrop * Grazia * This is a picture of England that comes from a place of compassion and understanding * inews * Millions of words have been and will be written on Brexit but few will get to the heart of why it is happening as incisively as Middle England -- John Boyne * Irish Times * Tackling his characters' opposing points of view, he draws a portrait of a recognisable Britain baffled by its loss of industry and jobs, and of everyday people shocked by a rise of acceptable racism and xenophobia. It's also very, very funny * Stylist * In Middle England, Coe shows an understanding of this country that goes beyond what most cabinet ministers can muster . . . he subtly builds a picture that exposes the cracks in society . . . he is a master of satire but pokes fun subtly, without ever being cruel, biting or blatant . . . his light, funny writing makes you feel better * Evening Standard * His affectionately witty attitude to our human foibles is always uplifting . . . Superb * The Times * A pertinent, entertaining study of a nation in crisis -- 'Books of the Year' * Financial Times * Expansive and often very funny . . . 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 * Brilliantly funny . . . a compelling state of the nation novel, full of light and shade, which vividly charts modern Britain's tragicomic slide * Economist *

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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).

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