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Coe's brilliantly funny skewering of modern Britain - in the tradition of What a Carve Up! and The Rotters' Club This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all. It's about the legacy of war and the end of innocence. It's about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won. It's about how 140 characters can make fools of us all. It's about living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others need food banks down the street. It is Jonathan Coe doing what he does best -- showing us how we live now.

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Thank goodness for Jonathan Coe Scotland on Sunday Probably the best English novelist of his generation Nick Hornby on Coe Everything a novel ought to be: courageous, challenging, funny, sad - and peopled with a fine troupe of characters The Times (on 'What a Carve Up!') Coe has huge powers of observation and enormous literary panache Sunday Times

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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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