A warm-hearted, centrist dad, state-of-the-nation novel. We follow four generations of one family in a Birmingham suburb, from VE day to the Covid-19 pandemic. “Jonathan Coe’s stock-in-trade is to give us big ideas wrapped in a pretty tissue of nostalgic detail and funny domestic scenes, and Bournville is a classic example of this technique, albeit sometimes at the expense of the depth and wit of his best-loved works,” wrote the reviewer Melissa Katsoulis. For readers new to him, start with The Rotters Club or What a Carve Up! They are terrific.Viking, £9.99
This autobiography reads like a Jilly Cooper novel – a gossipy romp through the life of a woman who found fame as a posh It girl in the 1980s and then
© Times Media Limited 2023.
Registered in England No. 894646. Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, SE1 9GF.