Bournville : a novel in seven occasions
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Published
New York : Europa Editions, 2023.
Format
Book
ISBN
9781609459420, 1609459423
Physical Desc
397 pages ; 22 cm.
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Published
New York : Europa Editions, 2023.
Language
English
ISBN
9781609459420, 1609459423
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Description
"A tender and wickedly funny portrait of England told through four generations of one family. Bournville is a quiet village in the heart of England famous for its chocolate. For eleven-year-old Mary, it is the center of her world, the place where most of her family’s friends and neighbors have worked for decades and where the streets smell faintly of chocolate. During the next three-quarters of a century, Mary will have children and grandchildren and great-children. She will live through the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the 1966 World Cup final (the last time England won), royal weddings and royal funerals, Brexit and Covid-19. Parts of the chocolate factory will be transformed into a theme park, and Bournville itself will gradually disappear into the sprawl of the growing city of Birmingham. As we travel through seventy-five years of social change, from James Bond to Princess Diana, and from wartime nostalgia to the World Wide Web, one pressing question starts to emerge: will these changing times bring Mary's family -- and their country -- closer together, or leave them more adrift and divided than ever before? Bournville is a rich and poignant new novel from the bestselling, Costa award-winning author of Middle England. It is the story of a woman, of a nation's love affair with chocolate, of Britain itself"--,Publisher.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Chatham Borough-Chatham Township Library - Adult Fiction - New | FIC COE | Available |
Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Fiction - New | COE Jonathan | Available |
Hunterdon North County Branch - Adult Fiction - New | COE Jonathan | Available |
Kinnelon Library - Adult Fiction | FIC COE | Available |
Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction - New | FICTION COE JONATHAN | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Coe, J. (2023). Bournville: a novel in seven occasions . Europa Editions.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Coe, Jonathan. 2023. Bournville: A Novel in Seven Occasions. Europa Editions.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Coe, Jonathan. Bournville: A Novel in Seven Occasions Europa Editions, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Coe, Jonathan. Bournville: A Novel in Seven Occasions Europa Editions, 2023.
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