The Proof of My Innocence

Jonathan Coe

ISBN 10: 0241678412 / ISBN 13: 9780241678411

Published by Viking, 2024

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Title page signed by the author. First edition, first impression. Hardback with dust jacket. No marks or damage. Fine/Fine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Proof of My Innocence
• Publisher: Viking
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241678412
• ISBN 13: 9780241678411
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition, Special Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 3W x 16.3H x 24.2D centimeters 3 centimeters width by 16.3 centimeters height by 24.2 centimeters depth
• Weight: 564 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Post-university life doesn’t suit Phyl. Time passes slowly living back home with her parents, working a zero-hour contract serving Japanese food to holidaymakers at Heathrow’s Terminal 5. As for her budding plans of becoming a writer, those are going nowhere.

That is, until family friend Chris comes to stay. He’s been on the path to uncover a sinister think-tank, founded at Cambridge University in the 1980s, that’s been scheming to push the British government in a more extreme direction. One that’s finally poised to put their plans into action.

But speaking truth to power can be dangerous - and power will stop at nothing to stay on top.

As Britain finds itself under the leadership of a new Prime Minister whose tenure will only last for seven weeks, Chris pursues his story to a conference being held deep in the Cotswolds, where events take a sinister turn and a murder enquiry is soon in progress. But will the solution to the mystery lie in contemporary politics, or in a literary enigma that is almost forty years old?

Darting between decades and genres, THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE is a wickedly funny and razor-sharp new novel from one of Britain’s most beloved novelists, showing how the key to understanding the present can often be found in the murkiest corners of the past.