Jonathan Coe: Bournville: From the bestselling author of Middle England [2022] paperback Condition:Very Good and tortured by his jealousy

and tortured by his jealousy at the success and happiness of his neighbour Charley and his son Bernard

' PAUL REES

Sometimes it was as though the forty years of friendship between them was just a lesson in the unknowability of other people

Adele begins to fear that the real horror lies off the page

Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives

Jonathan Coe: Bournville: From the bestselling author of Middle England [2022] paperback Condition:Very Good and tortured by his jealousyFrom 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