A wickedly funny take on life under the Thatcher government by the prize-winning author of Middle England. It is the 1980s and the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueller by the year: Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn t. Henry s turning hospitals into car parks. Roddy s selling art in return for sex. Down on the farm Dorothy s squeezing every last pound from her livestock. Thomas is making a killing on the stock exchange; and Mark is selling arms to dictators. But once their hapless biographer Michael Owen starts investigating the family s trail of greed, corruption and immoral doings, the time growing ripe for the Winshaws to receive their comeuppance . . . __________ A sustained feat of humour, suspense and polemic, full of twists and ironies Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times A riveting social satire on the chattering and all-powerful upper classes Time Out Big, hilarious, intricate, furious, moving Guardian Written with his signature wit, Jonathan Coe s unmissable new novel, The Proof of My Innocence is available now!
