Jonathan Coe has become one of those contemporary English writers whose books one simply must read whenever they are published. Fans of Coe will know this already, but there may not be as many of them as he deserves. If you like a good story but also depth of characterisation and witty, wry observations on the world we live in today, this book will give provide a journey we are sure you will enjoy.
Jonathan Coe is a great observer of human nature and once again he gives us a thoroughly believable and sympathetic character in Maxwell Sim. Small, and sometimes seemingly insignificant, decisions can make such huge changes in our lives and this seems to always come through in Coe's novels. Brilliant, funny, poignant - Coe is one of the best writers of modern times.
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Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom. Estranged from his father, newly divorced, unable to communicate with his only daughter, he realizes that while he may have seventy-four friends on Facebook, there is nobody in the world with whom he can actually share his problems. Then a business proposition comes his way - a strange exercise in corporate PR that will require him to spend a week driving from London to a remote retail outlet on the Shetland Isles. Setting out with an open mind, good intentions and a friendly voice on his SatNav for company, Maxwell finds that this journey soon takes a more serious turn, and carries him not only to the furthest point of the United Kingdom, but into some of the deepest and darkest corners of his own past. In his sparkling and hugely enjoyable new book Jonathan Coe reinvents the picaresque novel for our time.
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Book Club Recommendations, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim is available in Paperback
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim was written by Jonathan Coe and published by Penguin Books Ltd
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim has 352 pages
£9.89
