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The Rotters' Club

By: Jonathan Coe
Narrated by: Jeff Rawle
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'Probably the best English novelist of his generation' Nick Hornby

Jonathan Coe's widely acclaimed novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension. A group of young friends inherit the editorship of their school magazine and begin to put their own distinctive spin onto events in the wider world. A zestful comedy of personal and social upheaval, The Rotters' Club captures a fateful moment in British politics - the collapse of 'Old Labour' - and imagines its impact on the topsy-turvy world of the bemused teenager: a world in which a lost pair of swimming trunks can be just as devastating as an IRA bomb.

'One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving, richly comic novels that you find all too rarely in English fiction ... a masterpiece' Daily Telegraph

Downloadable, abridged audiobook edition read by Jeff Rawle.

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I fall into the minority that not only grew up in Birmingham, but also studied at the school King Williams is based on, I even got the same bus as mentioned in the story, a couple of decades later though.



For me the experience was like colouring in an unknown past, I remember thinking at one point that I could have been one of the characters had my life been transposed back to those times! It's difficult to imagine how this story would be received by anyone else.



The narrator is good - although not the most convincing female voices I've heard from a male narrator.

Brilliant if you've ever lived in the Midlands

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