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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 Europeen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Medicis tranger 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.
A sustained feat of humour, suspense and polemic, full of twists and ironies -- Hilary Mantel A riveting social satire on the chattering and all-powerful upper classes * Time Out * Big, hilarious, intricate, furious, moving * Guardian * Everything a novel ought to be: courageous, challenging, funny, sad - and peopled with a fine troupe of characters * The Times *
