Bournville
- Author Jonathan Coe
- Narrator Peter Caulfield, Cara Horgan
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date 3 November 2022
- Run Time 12 hours and 29 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Second World War fiction.
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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
'A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become' Rachel Joyce
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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.
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PRAISE FOR MIDDLE ENGLAND
'Brilliantly funny . . . a compelling state of the nation novel' Economist
'A comedy for our times' Guardian
'Very funny. . . a writer of uncommon decency' Observer
'The great chronicler of Englishness' Independent
© 2022 Jonathan Coe (P)2022 Penguin Audio
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