Middle England
Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2019
«Middle England combines top-class soap opera storytelling with melancholy insight into what it means to be English»
Metro
WINNER OF THE THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2019
'The book everyone is talking about' The Times
'A comedy for our times' Guardian
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The country is changing and, up and down the land, cracks are appearing - within families and between generations.
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WINNER OF THE THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2019
'The book everyone is talking about' The Times
'A comedy for our times' Guardian
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The country is changing and, up and down the land, cracks are appearing - within families and between generations.
In the Midlands Benjamin Trotter is trying to help his aged father navigate a Britain that seems to have forgotten he exists, whilst in London his friend Doug doesn't understand why his teenage daughter is eternally enraged. Meanwhile, newlyweds Sophie and Ian can find nothing to agree on except the fact that their marriage is on the rocks . . .
A hilarious follow-up to The Rotters' Club and Closed Circle, Jonathan Coe captures the state of our nation once again!
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'Coe's back with a bang. Middle England is the novel about Brexit we need' Daily Telegraph
'A pertinent, entertaining study of a nation in crisis' Financial Times, Books of the Year
'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
Written with his signature wit, Jonathan Coe's unmissable new novel, The Proof of My Innocence, is available to pre-order now!
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 432
- ISBN
- 9780241983683
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Om forfatteren
Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the award-winning, bestselling author of 14 novels:
The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love, The Dwarves of Death, What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep, The Rotters’ Club, The Closed Circle, The Rain Before It Falls, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, Expo 58, Number 11, Middle England, Mr Wilder and Me and Bournville. He has won
the Costa Novel Award, the Prix du Livre Européen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Médicis Étranger, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, amongst many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l'Ordre de l'Art et des Lettres. His work been translated into 22 languages. Jonathan Coe lives in London.
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«Middle England combines top-class soap opera storytelling with melancholy insight into what it means to be English»
Metro
«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
«Brilliantly funny . . . a compelling state of the nation novel, full of light and shade, which vividly charts modern Britain's tragicomic slide»
Economist
« This is a picture of England that comes from a place of compassion and understanding»
inews
«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
«A pertinent, entertaining study of a nation in crisis»
'Books of the Year', Financial Times
«His affectionately witty attitude to our human foibles is always uplifting . . . Superb »
The 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
«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
«Coe is as funny and tender as ever, restoring some humanity to the tumultuous societal backdrop»
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