A review by penelopesodyssey
Middle England by Jonathan Coe

4.0

Maybe I should have given this book 5 stars. I do think everyone should read it because it so accurately portrays the political atmosphere of our times. It also explained to me things that I hadn’t understood, like for example the Olympics opening ceremony, which I never watched. However, the characters, although rounded enough to be believable, so evidently represented different demographics, and so many of them,that it gave me a kind of spooky feeling, as if reading an essay not a novel.