What a Carve Up!: 'Everything a novel ought to be: courageous, challenging, funny, sad' The Times

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It is the 1980s and the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueller by the year- Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn't; Henry's turning hospitals into car parks; Roddy's selling art in return for sex; down on the farm Dorothy's squeezing every last pound from her livestock; Thomas is making a killing on the stock exchange; and Mark is selling arms to dictators. But once their hapless biographer Michael Owen starts investigating the family's trail of greed, corruption and immoral doings, the time grows ripe for the Winshaws to receive their comeuppance . . . 'A sustained feat of humour, suspense and polemic, full of twists and ironies.' Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times 'A riveting social satire on the chattering and all-powerful upper classes.' Time Out 'Big, hilarious, intricate, furious, moving.' Guardian

Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. His novels include Rotters, The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love, The Dwarves of Death and What a Carve Up!, which won the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Itranger.The House of Sleep won the Writers' Guild Best Fiction Award for 1997.