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Bournville

Auteur(s): Jonathan Coe
Narrateur(s): Peter Caulfield, Cara Horgan
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Bournville is a quiet village in the heart of England famous for its chocolate. For eleven-year-old Mary, it is the center of her world, the place where most of her family's friends and neighbors have worked for decades.

During the next three-quarters of a century, Mary will have children and grandchildren and great-children. She will live through the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the 1966 World Cup final (the last time England won), royal weddings and royal funerals, Brexit and Covid-19. Parts of the chocolate factory will be transformed into a theme park, and Bournville itself will gradually disappear into the sprawl of the growing city of Birmingham.

As we travel through seventy-five years of social change, from James Bond to Princess Diana, and from wartime nostalgia to the World Wide Web, one pressing question starts to emerge: will these changing times bring Mary's family-and their country-closer together, or leave them more adrift and divided than ever before?

Bournville is a rich and poignant new novel from the bestselling, Costa award-winning author of Middle England. It is the story of a woman, of a nation's love affair with chocolate, of Britain itself.

©2022 Jonathan Coe (P)2024 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Historique Redevances Angleterre
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Coe’s attention to detail in articulating the lives of ordinary people brings Bournville to life. If you’re of a certain vintage from the UK, Coe’s rendition of life post the Second World War to current times will resonate. A beautifully written book a la Jonathan Coe’s style!

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