{"product_id":"proof-of-my-innocence-book-jonathan-coe-9780241678428","title":"The Proof of My Innocence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The premier satirist of great British crapness is on killer form in this gag-a-minute mystery' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A new Jonathan Coe is always a treat... Coe is a master at exploring the pains of modern life' \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e---\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePost-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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?\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e---\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Full of energy... a madcap caper, a sideways memoir, a tricky jeu d'esprit that is also a quiet defence of fiction in a post-truth age, and enormous fun to read' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Deeply pleasurable, and a lot of fun. You emerge from it glowing' \u003ci\u003eiPaper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Fantastic, wickedly funny and gripping. Coe has written a beautifully crafted mystery that dovetails as a sharp, smart, state of the nation' Simon McCleave\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I was delighted... it's clever and political - while also being very funny' John Self\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51338220732689,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51338221748497,"sku":"GOR014228773","price":12.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0241678420.jpg?v=1786443331","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/proof-of-my-innocence-book-jonathan-coe-9780241678428","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}