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The Closed Circle
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  • Published: 27 August 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241967720
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $32.00

The Closed Circle

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Paperback
27 Aug 2014
EBook
15 June 2005
Audiobook
4 July 2019
Audiobook
25 Mar 2010
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A biting, widescreen send-up of the greed and superficial sheen of Blairite Britain featuring the characters from The Rotters' Club all grown up, from one of our greatest British novelists

On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a superficially cool, sexed-up new version of the country, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his parents' TV. Watching, in fact, his younger brother, Paul, now a bright young New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Blairite dream. Neither of them can know that their lives are about to implode.

Set against the backdrop of a changing Britain and the country's increasingly compromised role in America's 'war against terrorism', the characters struggle to make sense of the perennial problems of love, vocation and family.
  • Published: 27 August 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241967720
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $32.00

About the author

Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the award-winning, bestselling author of fifteen novels, including What a Carve Up!, The Rotters’ Club, Middle England and, most recently, The Proof of My Innocence. He has won the Costa Novel Award, the Prix du Livre Européen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Médicis Étranger and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, among many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into twenty-two languages. Jonathan Coe lives in London.
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Also by Jonathan Coe

Bournville
The Proof of My Innocence
What a Carve Up!
Middle England
Lessons in Harmony
Mr Wilder and Me
The Rotters' Club
See all

Praise for The Closed Circle

Spectacular. Coe's finest achievement since What a Carve Up!

Time Out

Wonderful, hilarious … so appealing that the last cruel thing about it is the ending

Daily Telegraph

Superbly funny, extremely readable, entertaining … keeps the pages turning

Guardian

As funny as anything Coe has written

The Times Literary Supplement

Richly drawn. Coe has succeeded in accomplishing that rare feat: a pair of novels that combine the addictive quality of the best soap operas with a basic cultural integrity

Independent on Sunday