The Closed Circle (Rotters’ Club 2) - Jonathan Coe Audiobook

Written by Jonathan Coe
Read by Nicholas Burns
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a superficially cool, sexed-up new version of the country, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his parents’ TV.

Watching, in fact, his younger brother, Paul, now a bright young New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Blairite dream. Neither of them can know that their lives are about to implode.

Set against the backdrop of a changing Britain and the country’s increasingly compromised role in America’s ‘war against terrorism’, the characters struggle to make sense of the perennial problems of love, vocation and family

The characters of The Rotters’ Club–Jonathan Coe’s beloved novel of adolescent life in the 1970s–have bartered their innocence for the vengeance of middle age in this incisive portrait of Cool Britannia at the millennium.