A truly bizarre and inventive novel from the mid-1990s by the British writer Jonathan Coe. I’ve read one of his later novels later and really enjoyed it and IT oddly felt like a first novel, while this novel, earlier feels more mature in some ways. We meet Michael Owen, failed novelist (well, successful, but now fading) who has been commissioned by a spinster aunt of a rich land-owning British family to write a definitive biography of the family. The Winshaws are a corrupt and awful […]