Book description
The Closed Circle is Jonathan Coe's hilarious sequel
to The Rotters' Club
It's the end of the century and Benjamin Trotter and friends are all
grown up. Life is a ceaseless whirl of jobs, marriages, kids - and
self-inflicted angst. Despite the shiny optimism of Blair's Britain,
youthful hopes and dreams feel betrayed. Is the Government (and by
extension Benjamin's MP brother Paul) to blame? Or are the 'rotters'
themselves - only passingly faithful to their dreams - really at fault?
The Closed Circle - sequel to The Rotters' Club -
depicts a group of former school friends as older, wiser and
disillusioned in Blair's Britain at the turn of the millennium. It
proves that the present can never truly be disentangled from the past.
'Terrific. An incisive portrait of Britain at the turn of the
century' Spectator
'Coe's finest achievement since What a Carve up!' Time Out
'Popular fiction at its best' Daily Mail
Jonathan Coe's novels are filled with biting political satire,
moving and astute observations of life and hilarious set pieces that
have made him one of the most popular writers of his generation. His
other titles, The Accidental Woman, The Dwarves of
Death, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, The House of
Sleep (winner of the 1998 Prix M dicis tranger), A Touch of
Love, What a Carve Up! (winner of the 1995 John Llewellyn
Rhys Prize) and The Rain Before it Falls, are all available in
Penguin paperback.
Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He has published six
novels, The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love, The Dwarves of Death,
What a Carve Up!, which won the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The
House of Sleep, which won the 1998 Prix Medicis Etranger, and The
Rotters, Club, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize. All of
these titles are available from Penguin.
