The Proof of My Innocence

Beschreibung

'The premier satirist of great British crapness is on killer form in this gag-a-minute mystery' Observer<BR><BR>'A new Jonathan Coe is always a treat... Coe is a master at exploring the pains of modern life' The Times<BR><BR>---<BR><BR>Post-university life doesn't suit Phyl. Time passes slowly, living with her parents and working a zero-hours contract at Heathrow Airport, while her budding plans of becoming a writer are going nowhere.<BR><BR>That is, until family friend Chris comes to stay.

He's been investigating a radical think tank, founded at Cambridge University in the 1980s, that's been scheming to push the British government in an ever more extreme direction. When he follows this story to a conference in a rambling old hotel deep in the Cotswolds, events take a bizarre and sinister turn. Soon he is caught up in a world of cryptic clues, secret passages and, eventually, murder.<BR><BR>In the end, despite the efforts of a suitably eccentric detective, it falls to Phyl herself - ably assisted by Chris's outspoken adopted daughter Rashida - to look for answers to the fatal mystery.

But will they lie in contemporary politics, or in a literary enigma that is almost forty years old?<BR> <BR>---<BR><BR>'Full of energy... a madcap caper, a sideways memoir, a tricky jeu d'esprit that is also a quiet defence of fiction in a post-truth age, and enormous fun to read' Guardian<BR><BR>'Deeply pleasurable, and a lot of fun. You emerge from it glowing' iPaper<BR><BR>'Fantastic, wickedly funny and gripping.

Coe has written a beautifully crafted mystery that dovetails as a sharp, smart, state of the nation' Simon McCleave<BR><BR>'I was delighted... it's clever and political - while also being very funny' John Self

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