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This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all. It´s about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won. It´s about living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others need food banks down the street. It is Jonathan Coe doing what he does best - showing us how we live now.

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This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all.

It´s about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won.

It´s about how 140 characters can make fools of us all.

It´s about living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others need food banks down the street.

It is Jonathan Coe doing what he does best - showing us how we live now.

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Thank goodness for Jonathan Coe Scotland on Sunday

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Coe, Jonathan
Jonathan Coe is the author of twelve novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep,The Rotters´ Club and Number 11. He is also the author of a biography of B.S Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, and The Broken Mirror, a children´s book.

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