Bournville

From the bestselling author of Middle England comes a novel that tells the story of post-war Britain through four generations of one familybr>br>In the Birmingham suburb of Bournville, site of a famous chocolate factory, a family celebrates VE Day in 1945. As the country struggles to understand the war it has just endured, six more national celebrations follow: coronations and football matches, fairy-tale weddings and royal funerals. As we travel through seventy-five years of social change, from wartime nostalgia to James Bond and coronavirus, one pressing question starts to emerge: have these milestone celebrations brought the family - and their country - closer together, or left them more adrift and divided than ever before?br>br>From one of Britain''s best-loved novelists comes a story for our times, a story that is by turns unsettling and profoundly moving, brutally funny and brilliantly true.>

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Coe, Coe Jonathan
• Publisher: Viking
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9780241517383
• ISBN: 978-0-241-51738-3
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 240 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Second World War fiction, FICTION / Historical / World War II, FICTION / Political, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern and contemporary fiction, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050