Description
In Bournville, a peaceful suburb of Birmingham, stands a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it is the centre of the world: the reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate and the place where most of their friends and neighbours have worked for decades. Mary goes on to live through the Coronation and the World Cup final, royal weddings and funerals, Brexit and Covid-19, while having children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of her own. Parts of the chocolate factory are transformed into a theme park as modern life and the city encroach on the peaceful enclave. Spanning seventy-five years of social change, from James Bond to Princess Diana and from wartime nostalgia to the World Wide Web, this tender, funny and lyrical novel asks whether changing times will bring Mary's family and their country closer together or leave them more adrift and divided than ever.
Information
Author: Coe Jonathan
Language: English
Publication date: August 31, 2023
Manufacturer: The Book Service Ltd (Penguin)
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, English novels, Fiction in english
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 353
ISBN/EAN: 9780241517406