Bournville by Coe, Jonathan

Author: Coe, Jonathan

c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2)

Published on 31 August 2023 by Penguin Books Ltd (Viking) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 368 pages
128 x 198 x 25 | 262g

‘A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become’ RACHEL JOYCEIn 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