The Proof of My Innocence

De: Jonathan Coe

Narrado por: Sam Woolf, Alana Maria, Charlotte Worthing, Mark Stobbart, Roy McMillan

Brought to you by Penguin.

Post-university life doesn’t suit Phyl. Time passes slowly, living with her parents and working a zero-hours contract at Heathrow Airport, while her budding plans of becoming a writer are going nowhere.

That is, until family friend Chris comes to stay. He’s been investigating a radical think tank, founded at Cambridge University in the 1980s, that’s been scheming to push the British government in an ever more extreme direction. When he follows this story to a conference in a rambling old hotel deep in the Cotswolds, events take a bizarre and sinister turn. Soon he is caught up in a world of cryptic clues, secret passages and, eventually, murder.

In the end, despite the efforts of a suitably eccentric detective, it falls to Phyl herself – ably assisted by Chris’s outspoken adopted daughter Rashida - to look for answers to the fatal mystery. But will they lie in contemporary politics, or in a literary enigma that is almost forty years old?

'A brilliant, shrewd, satirical novel – gimlet-eyed, funny, very clever and a searchingly profound look at the state of this strange country of ours' William Boyd

'My comfort read: anything by Jonathan Coe' Bob Mortimer

'Coe shows an understanding of this country that goes beyond what most cabinet ministers can muster . . . he is a master of satire but pokes fun subtly, without ever being cruel, biting or blatant . . . his light, funny writing makes you feel better' Evening Standard

'A novelist who gains in range and reputation with every book' Pat Barker

'Please, God … if there’s a next life, let me write as well as Jonathan Coe' Anthony Bourdain

'Probably the best English novelist of his generation' Nick Hornby

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Reseñas de la Crítica

Wonderfully accomplished and darkly funny. The Proof of My Innocence is a murder mystery, a satire on Britain's ever right-ward drift, culminating in Liz Truss; and an inquiry into truth and perception. Jonathan Coe gets better and better (Luke Harding)

A brilliant, shrewd, satirical novel – gimlet-eyed, funny, very clever and a searchingly profound look at the state of this strange country of ours. (William Boyd)

The premier satirist of great British crapness is on killer form in this gag-a-minute mystery - who but Coe would think to structure a book around the abysmal transport police mantra “See It. Say It. Sorted”?

A funny, smart and innovative exploration of contemporary British political dynamics (Nussaibah Younis)

A wonderfully farcical and absurd book that puts into perspective the political chaos of post-Brexit Britain

Coe is on engaging form… satiric and entertaining brio

Full of energy... a madcap caper, a sideways memoir, a tricksy jeu d’esprit that is also a quiet defence of fiction in a post-truth age, and enormous fun to read

Deeply pleasurable, and a lot of fun. You emerge from it glowing (iPaper)

A new Jonathan Coe is always a treat . . . Coe is a master at exploring the pains of modern life (Rosamund Urwin)

Endlessly satisfying

Engaging and very interesting

Engaging story and the author masters the ability of mixing real history with the depth of fictional characters. Never boring, I am just uncertain about the end, it feels a bit rushed/ unmotivated. But this affects really just the "last page", I did really enjoyed all the rest.
Extremely well narrated, one of those cases where the narration adds something without interfering with the story, and make the "reading" easier.