Henry Hitchings

No chocolate-box portrait: Bournville, by Jonathan Coe, reviewed

Queasy nostalgia gives way to mounting anger in a satirical novel about post-war Britain, seen through the eyes of a Birmingham family

Bournville Village Green. [Alamy]
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    Jonathan Coe

    Viking, pp. 432, £20

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