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´The book everyone is talking about´ The Times

´A comedy for our times´ Guardian
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The country is changing and, up and down the land, cracks are appearing - within families and between generations. In the Midlands Benjamin Trotter is trying to help his aged father navigate a Britain that seems to have forgotten he exists, whilst in London his friend Doug doesn´t understand why his teenage daughter is eternally enraged. Meanwhile, newlyweds Sophie and Ian can find nothing to agree on except the fact that their marriage is on the rocks . . .

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´Coe´s back with a bang. Middle England is the novel about Brexit we need´ Daily Telegraph

´A pertinent, entertaining study of a nation in crisis´ Financial Times, Books of the Year

´Very funny. Coe - a writer of uncommon decency - reminds us that the way out of this mess is through moderation, through compromise, through that age-old English ability to laugh at ourselves´ Observer

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Brilliantly funny . . . a compelling state of the nation novel, full of light and shade, which vividly charts modern Britain´s tragicomic slide Economist

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Coe, Jonathan
Jonathan Coe is the author of twelve novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep,The Rotters´ Club and Number 11. He is also the author of a biography of B.S Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, and The Broken Mirror, a children´s book.

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