Coe's brilliantly funny skewering of 21st Century Britain - in the tradition of WHAT A CARVE UP! and THE ROTTER’S CLUB. Jonathan Coe's new novel is the story for our times: moving from the distant rumble of the Iraq War to the austerity years of the Britain we know now. Coe uses all his wit and acute powers of satire and observation to show up a mirror to ourselves.