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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 the legacy of war and the end of innocence.
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.
'You can't stop reading....I was haunted for days' The Independent
'No modern novelist is better at charting the precariousness of middle-class life' The Observer
'Read Number 11 to see what an odd country Britain has become' The Times
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