“It is miraculous how, in his new novel, Coe has created a social history of postwar Britain as we are still living it. Bournville is a beautiful, and often very funny, tribute to an underexamined place and also a truly moving story of how a country discovered tolerance”
— Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling author of Empireland
“A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become”
— Rachel Joyce
“Sprinkled throughout with Coe's inimitable humour, love and white-hot anger”
— Evening Standard
“[Coe] has a huge talent for balancing humour with poignancy”
— Book of the month , Good Housekeeping
“As warming, rich and comforting as a mug of hot chocolate”
— The Times
“A hugely impressive state-of-the-nation tale”
— Observer
“Epic in scope, but personal in resonance”
— Elizabeth Day, bestselling author of Magpie
Bournville
Year
2022
Pages
353
Praise
“It is miraculous how, in his new novel, Coe has created a social history of postwar Britain as we are still living it. Bournville is a beautiful, and often very funny, tribute to an underexamined place and also a truly moving story of how a country discovered tolerance”
— Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling author of Empireland
“A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become”
— Rachel Joyce
“Sprinkled throughout with Coe's inimitable humour, love and white-hot anger”
— Evening Standard
“[Coe] has a huge talent for balancing humour with poignancy”
— Book of the month , Good Housekeeping
“As warming, rich and comforting as a mug of hot chocolate”
— The Times
“A hugely impressive state-of-the-nation tale”
— Observer
“Epic in scope, but personal in resonance”
— Elizabeth Day, bestselling author of Magpie
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