Middle England: A novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

A comedy for our times" (The Guardian), Middle England is a piercing and provocative novel about a country in crisis. From the frenzy of the 2012 Olympics to the aftermath of the Brexit referendum, here Jonathan Coe chronicles the story of modern Britain by way of a cast of characters whose world is being upended. There are newlyweds who disagree about the country's future and, possibly, their relationship; a political commentator who writes impassioned columns about austerity from his lavish town house while his radical teenage daughter undertakes a relentless quest for universal justice; and Benjamin Trotter, who embarks on an apparently doomed new career in middle age, and his father, whose last wish is to vote to leave the European Union. A sequel to The Rotters' Club and The Closed Circle that stands entirely alone, Middle England is a darkly comic look at our strange new world.

• | Author: Jonathan Coe
• | Publisher: Vintage
• | Publication Date: July 14, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 448 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0525566848
• | ISBN-13: 9780525566847