What a Carve Up!

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A wickedly funny take on life under the Thatcher government by the prize-winning author of Middle England.

It is the 1980s and the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueller by the year:

Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn’t. Henry’s turning hospitals into car parks. Roddy’s selling art in return for sex. Down on the farm Dorothy’s squeezing every last pound from her livestock. Thomas is making a killing on the stock exchange; and Mark is selling arms to dictators.

But once their hapless biographer Michael Owen starts investigating the family’s trail of greed, corruption and immoral doings, the time growing ripe for the Winshaws to receive their comeuppance . . .
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‘A sustained feat of humour, suspense and polemic, full of twists and ironies’ Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times

‘A riveting social satire on the chattering and all-powerful upper classes’
Time Out

‘Big, hilarious, intricate, furious, moving’ Guardian

Written with his signature wit, Jonathan Coe’s unmissable new novel, Bournville, is available to pre-order now!

ISBN: 9780241967799

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The Winshaw family are getting richer and cruler by the day. But once the narrator, Michael Owen, uncovers their trail of greed, corruption and immoral doings throughout the 1980s, the time seems ripe for their come uppance.

Additional information

Weight0.351 kg
Dimensions19.8 × 12.9 × 3 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

500

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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