From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes
a profoundly moving, brutally funny and brilliantly true portrait
of Britain told through four generations of one family. The perfect
gift for book lovers this Christmas! 'A wickedly funny, clever, but
also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and
what we have become' Rachel Joyce ----- In Bournville, a placid
suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For
eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it's the centre of the
world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the
place where most of their friends and neighbours have worked for
decades. Mary will go on to live through the Coronation and the
World Cup final, royal weddings and royal funerals, Brexit and
Covid-19. She'll have children and grandchildren and
great-grandchildren. Parts of the chocolate factory will be
transformed into a theme park, as modern life and the city crowd in
on their peaceful enclave. As we travel through seventy-five years
of social change, from James Bond to Princess Diana, and from
wartime nostalgia to the World Wide Web, one pressing question
starts to emerge: will these changing times bring Mary's family -
and their country - closer together, or leave them more adrift and
divided than ever before? Bournville is a rich and poignant new
novel from the bestselling, Costa award-winning author of Middle
England. It is the story of a woman, of a nation's love affair with
chocolate, of Britain itself. ----- '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 'Epic in scope, but personal in
resonance' Elizabeth Day, bestselling author of Magpie 'A hugely
impressive state-of-the-nation tale' Observer 'As warming, rich and
comforting as a mug of hot chocolate' The Times '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
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