From the bestselling author of Middle England and Mr Wilder and Me comes a brilliant new state
of the nation novel In the Birmingham suburb of Bournville a family celebrate VE Day in 1945.
With the joy of such an occasion there also come larger national questions about the nature of
the horrific war the country has just been through. Following this family through generations
as they navigate seventy-five years of drastic social change from wartime nostalgia and
English exceptionalism to the World Cup and coronavirus domestic secrets and national myths
leave characters and a country adrift bewildered and divided. Bournville is the story of who
we are - at our worst and best. From bestselling author Jonathan Coe comes a novel of rare
humour and humanity a novel that holds up a mirror to our past and our present.
