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With his third novel in four years, Coe is on a roll; he tracks the fortunes of a family through snapshots of communal experiences, from the Queen's coronation through the 1966 World Cup to pandemic lockdown, in a moving, compassionate portrait of individual and national change Guardian, Best Fiction of 2022
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'A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become' RACHEL JOYCE
In Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it's the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of their friends and neighbours have worked for decades. Mary will go on to live through the Coronation and the World Cup final, royal weddings and royal funerals, Brexit and Covid-19. She'll have children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Parts of the chocolate factory will be transformed into a theme park, as modern life and the city crowd in on their peaceful enclave.
As we travel through seventy-five years of social change, from James Bond to Princess Diana, and from wartime nostalgia to the World Wide Web, one pressing question starts to emerge: will these changing times bring Mary's family - and their country - closer together, or leave them more adrift and divided than ever before?
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'A beautiful, and often very funny, tribute to an underexamined place and also a truly moving story of how a country discovered tolerance' Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling author of Empireland
'A hugely impressive state-of-the-nation tale' Observer
'This charming read is as warming, rich and comforting as a mug of hot chocolate' The Times
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Jonathan Coe was born a few miles from Bournville in 1961. The author of political satires such as Bournville, 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 Européen (both for Middle England).
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the bee sting | paul murray | england | middle england | mr wilder and me | satire | william boyd | any human heart | silverview | john le carre | richard osman | no one is talking about this | patricia lockwood | billy wilder | autumn ali smith | franzen | crossroads | ordinary thunderstorms | anthony doerr | cloud cuckoo land | ian mcewan | cockroach | jon mcgregor | reservoir 13 | tessa hadley | george saunders | lincoln in the bardo | brexit | world cup | ve day | pandemic | house of sleep | closed circle | expo 58 | number 11 | aga | historical fiction | ww2 fiction fiction | contemporary | historical
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Titel: | Bournville |
Verlag: | Penguin Books UK; Viking |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
Sprache: | English |
368 Seiten | |
198 mm x 129 mm | |
ISBN-13: | 978-0-241-51740-6 |
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