Number 11

I found this book very entertaining and impossible to put down. The plot twists kept coming and kept me intrigued until the very last page. The language is of great quality. I enjoyed Coe's humour and his comic description of modern world and specifically modern England.

Lonesome, desperate
at the mercy of the rich
never feeling safe.

A return to form for Mr Coe after the lacklustre Expo 58. I very much enjoyed reading it, but I'm docking it a star for some plot threads left horribly dangling. Be warned, it is a novel about the state of England in 2015, and therefore hugely depressing.