Middle England

The Rotters' Club Series - Book 3

Middle England

By Jonathan Coe
Unabridged
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“Thanks to the author’s humor and empathy, combined with the charming narration of Rory Kinnear, the audio experience is absorbing and even joyful. Kinnear creates multiple distinctive characters…Kinnear expertly conveys Coe’s absurdist wit as evidenced by the feud between two clowns who entertain at children’s parties, a Booker Prize nominee and guest lecturer on a cruise ship who presents a long list of demands, and Doug’s sparring with a political communications director who willfully misunderstands every question he asks. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”

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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award

Winner of the Costa Book Award for Best Novel

Winner of Costa Novel Award, 2019

A comedy for our times” (The Guardian), Middle England is a piercing and provocative novel about a country in crisis. From the frenzy of the 2012 Olympics to the aftermath of the Brexit referendum, here Jonathan Coe chronicles the story of modern Britain by way of a cast of characters whose world is being upended.

There are newlyweds who disagree about the country’s future and, possibly, their relationship; a political commentator who writes impassioned columns about austerity from his lavish town house while his radical teenage daughter undertakes a relentless quest for universal justice; and Benjamin Trotter, who embarks on an apparently doomed new career in middle age, and his father, whose last wish is to vote to leave the European Union. A sequel to The Rotters’ Club and The Closed Circle that stands entirely alone, Middle England is a darkly comic look at our strange new world.