Book Review
Bournville: Incisive novel asks how Britain arrived at voting for Johnson and Brexit
Author Jonathan Coe tries to answer the question of what has happened to his beloved homeland by tracking 75 years of British history as seen through the eyes of one extended family
While it’s easy, and perhaps even fun in a schadenfreude way, to look on as Britain continues to come apart at the seams, it’s a different story for an English man like Jonathan Coe. He’s no stranger to documenting his country’s past, as he did with Thatcher’s 1980s in What A Carve Up! or Middle England, set around the Brexit referendum. But in Bournville the author presents a much wider canvas; seventy-five years of British ...
