The Closed Circle
Registered by Brumbie of Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on 7/27/2007
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
2 journalers for this copy...
I really enjoyed this sequel to the Rotters Club particularly as it has its root in Birmingham. For me Jonathan Coe always grabs the zeitgeist and now that Benjamin Trotter and his friends are adults in Blair's Britain he has the ideal material.
Journal Entry 2 by Brumbie at Hudson's, 122-124 Colmore Row in Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Saturday, July 28, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (7/28/2007 UTC) at Hudson's, 122-124 Colmore Row in Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom
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Released at Birmingham meetup
Released at Birmingham meetup
I picked this book up because I read "The Rotters Club" shortly after seeing it dramatised on TV, and the sequel has been on my wish list ever since.
Doug scratched his head, genuinely baffld by the direction the conversation was taking. 'Paul, the years haven't made you any less weird, you know. What do you mean "friends"? How could we ever be friends? What would this friendship consist of?'
'Well . . ' Paul had already worked out the answer to this. 'Malvina thought, for instance, that since you and I had children of about the same age, we could maybe introduce them and see if they wanted to play together.'
'Let me get this straight,' said Doug: Your media advisor is suggesting that your children and my children should play together? I've never heard anything so ridiculous!'
Starting when the teenagers of "The Rotters Club" are in their mid-thirties, this book follows them through the next few years. The story unfolds as New Labour ditches its socialist principles in favour of the 'third way' and BMW threatens to close Rover's Longbridge plant at Birmingham, where some of the characters' fathers used to work.
'Well . . ' Paul had already worked out the answer to this. 'Malvina thought, for instance, that since you and I had children of about the same age, we could maybe introduce them and see if they wanted to play together.'
'Let me get this straight,' said Doug: Your media advisor is suggesting that your children and my children should play together? I've never heard anything so ridiculous!'
Starting when the teenagers of "The Rotters Club" are in their mid-thirties, this book follows them through the next few years. The story unfolds as New Labour ditches its socialist principles in favour of the 'third way' and BMW threatens to close Rover's Longbridge plant at Birmingham, where some of the characters' fathers used to work.
Journal Entry 5 by kittiwake at Starbucks - Yonge And Bloor in Toronto, Ontario Canada on Saturday, November 3, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (10/29/2007 UTC) at Starbucks - Yonge And Bloor in Toronto, Ontario Canada
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Read while on holiday in Canada.
Left on the bookshelves at this OBCZ.
Read while on holiday in Canada.
Left on the bookshelves at this OBCZ.
