This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all.


It's about the legacy of war and the end of innocence.


It's about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won.


It's about how 140 characters can make fools of us all.


It's about living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others need food banks down the street.


It is Jonathan Coe doing what he does best - showing us how we live now.


'Coe is among the handful of novelists who can tell us something about the temper of our times' Observer

Written with his signature wit, Jonathan Coe's unmissable new novel, The Proof of My Innocence, is available to order now!

Childhood friends Rachel and Alison are about to go on a journey into the strange, surreal heart of Britain in the early years of our new century.


About the Author
Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the award-winning, bestselling author of fifteen novels, including What a Carve Up!, The Rotters' Club, Middle England and, most recently, The Proof of My Innocence. He has won the Costa Novel Award, the Prix du Livre Europeen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Medicis Etranger and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, among many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into twenty-two languages. Jonathan Coe lives in London.

Reviews
Coe is back doing what he does best. Number 11 is a baroquely plotted, densely allusive, heart-on-his-sleeve, state-of-the-nation satire, an angry and exuberant book....Coe is not just back, but back on top form * Sunday Times *
You can't stop reading....I was haunted for days * The Independent *
Coe's prose is always a delight...hugely enjoyable * Daily Mail *
Jonathan Coe has established himself as one of the most entertaining chroniclers of our times. . . He has an enviable lightness of touch and is brilliant at portraying the lunacy of our time, when bankers need iceberg houses and their neighbours need food banks. He is often satirical, always compassionate. * Tatler *
He brings us the usual high quotient of jokes, emotional engagement with the characters and commitment to old-school storytelling, complete with narrative twists and thrilling set pieces * The Daily Telegraph *
An incredibly Dickensian novel...it articulates all kinds of themes that will make the reader feel very angry...I enjoyed it hugely and read it pretty much in a single sitting. Whenever there was an interruption I felt really angry and you can't really ask more from a novel than that...Really satisfying -- Tom Holland, BBC Radio 4
Jonathan Coe rips into modern celebrity culture and the decadent lives of the super-rich in hs latest satire * Good Housekeeping *
A restlessness would overtake me when I was separated from the book -- Kit Davis, BBC Radio 4
No modern novelist is better at charting the precariousness of middle-class life * The Observer *
Coe creeps up stealthily, delivering a book bursting with narrative coups and delicious ironies. Presenting a picture of an ailing country close to collapse, despite the apparent health suggested by its millionaires' mansions and its confidently callous politicians, the book scares rather than laughs us into calling for reform * Literary Review *



Book Information
ISBN 9780241967010
Author Jonathan Coe
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 259g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 23mm