The Proof of My Innocence

Post-university life doesn’t suit Phyl. Time passes slowly, living with her parents and working a zero-hours contract at Heathrow Airport, while her budding plans of becoming a writer are going nowhere. That is, until family friend Chris comes to stay. He’s been investigating a radical think tank, founded at Cambridge University in the 1980s, that’s been scheming to push the British government in an ever more extreme direction. When he follows this story to a conference in a rambling old hotel deep in the Cotswolds, events take a bizarre and sinister turn. Soon he is caught up in a world of cryptic clues, secret passages and, eventually, murder. In the end, despite the efforts of a suitably eccentric detective, it falls to Phyl herself – ably assisted by Chris’s outspoken adopted daughter Rashida - to look for answers to the fatal mystery. But will they lie in contemporary politics, or in a literary enigma that is almost forty years old?

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Coe
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.08.2025
• EAN: 9781405962414
• ISBN: 978-1-4059-6241-4
• No. of pages: 337
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General, Crime & mystery, Fiction: special features, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Political, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Politics, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, The Cotswolds, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary