Bournville a novel in seven occasions

Name: Bournville
Author: Coe, Jonathan

Auteur: Coe, Jonathan

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Coe, Jonathan

Engels
Paperback
9780241517390
03 november 2022
432 pagina's

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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 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. 'A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become' Rachel Joyce 'It is miraculous how, in his new novel, Coe has created a social history of postwar Britain as we are still living it. Bournville is a beautiful, and often very funny, tribute to an underexamined place and also a truly moving story of how a country discovered tolerance' Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling author of Empireland

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 03 november 2022
Aantal pagina's: 432
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Hoofdauteur: Coe, Jonathan
Hoofduitgeverij: Viking Uk

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Editie: 1
Product breedte: 155 mm
Product hoogte: 28 mm
Product lengte: 235 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 66 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 9 mm
Verpakking lengte: 341 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 168 g

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Historische romans

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