{"product_id":"middle-england-book-jonathan-coe-9780525566847","title":"Middle England","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rotters' Club\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Closed Circle\u003c\/i\u003e comes \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e novel for our strange contemporary times.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by chain retail, and London, where both frenzied riots and Olympic fever plague the streets, \u003ci\u003eMiddle England\u003c\/i\u003e tracks a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through the transformation of their society.\u003cbr\u003e There are newlyweds Ian and Sophie, who disagree about England's future and, possibly, their relationship; Doug, the political commentator who writes impassioned columns about austerity from his Chelsea townhouse while his radical teenage daughter undertakes a relentless quest for universal justice; Benjamin Trotter, who embarks on an apparently doomed new career in middle age, and his father Colin, whose last wish is to vote LEAVE in the Brexit referendum. Through all these lives we see this very tentatively united kingdom itself: a place of nostalgia and delusion, bewilderment and barely-suppressed rage.\u003cbr\u003e As acutely alert to the absurdity of the political classes as it is compassionate about those left behind by elites of all sorts, this is a novel only Jonathan Coe could have written.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50479582839057,"sku":"CIN0525566848G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51003334820113,"sku":"NIN9780525566847","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0525566848.jpg?v=1750741447","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-ie\/products\/middle-england-book-jonathan-coe-9780525566847","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}