Jonathan Coe returns to the comic mode of What a Carve Up! and The Rotters’ Club with this fresh and invigorating portrait of Britain (and Europe) after the war, struggling to find its identity, torn between tantalizing visions of the future and the certainties of the past, all mirrored in the life of a single, rather bemused, civil servant.
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This talk will be chaired by Boyd Tonkin, Literary Editor at The Independent.