The Proof of My Innocence

Resumen del libro

THE NEW STATE OF THE NATION MYSTERY FROM THE AWARDWINNING AUTHOR, AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOWWhen Eleonore (Leo) Reeves moves back home with her parents after graduation, she's frustrated by the narrow horizons of English country life. But when Richard, an old family friend, comes to stay for the weekend, she's refreshed by his political outlook, and intrigued by the spark of attraction she detects between him and her mother. Richard tells Leo that he's been researching a book so explosive that it might put his life in danger: the true story of a group of students and academics, all present at Cambridge University in the early 1980s, who went on to form an influential thinktank which has been quietly lobbying the government to sell off the NHS.After years in the political wilderness they're finally in a position to put their plans into action. Richard is on the cusp of a major breakthrough when tragedy strikes, throwing the Reeves's family life into turmoil, and prompting Leo to turn detective. But does the solution to Richard's murder lie in contemporary politics, or somewhere else entirely in a literary enigma that is almost forty years old?Darting between decades, perspectives and countries, THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE is a stateofthenation novel with a big heart, exploring how the key to understanding the present can only be found in the murky past. Most of all it is an exploration of a young graduate finding her way in the uncertain and constantly shifting Britain into which she was born.

Biografía del autor

p strong Jonathan Coe /strong (Birmingham, 1961) estudió en las universidades de Cambridge y Warwick. Anagrama ha publicado los títulos em strong ¡Menudo reparto! /strong /em (Premio John Llewellyn Rhys y, en Francia, Premio al Mejor Libro Extranjero): Una novela a la que habrá que recurrir en el futuro cuando uno quiera saber qué sucedió en la Inglaterra de los años ochenta (Ramón de España); strong em La casa del sueño /em /strong (Premio Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best Novel y, en Francia, Premio Médicis Extranjero): Si se organizase un festival de escritores verdaderamente originales, habría que invitarlo a él (Javier Aparicio Maydeu, em El Periódico /em ); strong em El Club de los Canallas /em /strong (Premio Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse): La más colorida de las novelas sobre los años más grises (Rodrigo Fresán); strong em El Círculo Cerrado /em /strong : Retrato perfecto de la Inglaterra de finales del siglo XX, lleno de sátira. Un libro altamente devorable (Kiko Amat); em strong La lluvia antes de caer /strong /em : Si buscan novelas que no se lean de un tirón y traten al lector con respeto, si les gusta desentrañarlas y demorarse en ellas, háganse con un ejemplar (Manuel Rodríguez Rivero, em El País /em ); em strong La espantosa intimidad de Maxwell Sim /strong /em : Buenísima, apasionante, divertida, cínica, tierna, única (Javier Puebla, em Cambio 16 /em ); strong em Expo 58 /em /strong : La novela que habría escrito Graham Greene si hubiera leído más de la cuenta a un Evelyn Waugh poderosamente nostálgico (Laura Fernández); strong em El número 11 /em /strong : El mejor retrato imaginable de la Inglaterra actual (David Morán, em Rockdelux /em ); strong em El corazón de Inglaterra /em /strong : La mejor novela para entender el divorcio entre el Reino Unido y Europa (Juan Cruz, em El País /em ); y strong em El señor Wilder y yo /em /strong : Una gozosa lección de vida y arte, una fiesta literaria de inteligente sensibilidad (Jesús Ferrer, em La Razón /em ). Su novela más reciente es strong em Bournville /em /strong .<br>