Bournville
by Jonathan Coe· 2022
Seventy-five years of postwar British history through the fortunes of one Birmingham family from the author of The Rotters' Club and Middle England. This novel tells the story of post-war Britain through four generations of one family.
In the Birmingham suburb of Bournville, site of a famous chocolate factory, a family celebrates VE Day in 1945. As the country struggles to understand the war it has just endured, six more national celebrations follow: coronations and football matches, fairy-tale weddings and royal funerals. As we travel through seventy-five years of social change, from wartime nostalgia to James Bond and coronavirus, one pressing question starts to emerge: have these milestone celebrations brought the family - and their country - closer together, or left them more adrift and divided than ever before?
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Seventy-five years of postwar British history through the fortunes of one Birmingham family from the author of The Rotters' Club and Middle England. This novel tells the story of post-war Britain through four generations of one family. In the Birmingham suburb of Bournville, site of a famous chocolate factory, a family celebrates VE Day in 1945. As the country struggles to understand the war it has just endured, six more national celebrations follow: coronations and football matches, fairy-tale weddings and royal funerals. As we travel through seventy-five years of social change, from wartime nostalgia to James Bond and coronavirus, one pressing question starts to emerge: have these milestone celebrations brought the family - and their country - closer together, or left them more adrift and divided than ever before?