The Closed Circle
Jonathan Coe Audio Book

On millennium night, 31 December 1999, with Tony Blair presiding over a superficially cool, sexed-up new version of the country, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his parents’ TV in the same Birmingham house in which he grew up. Watching, in fact, his younger brother, Paul, now a bright young New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Blairite dream. Neither of them can know that their lives are about to implode.

Set against the backdrop of the Millennium celebrations and Britain's increasingly compromised role in America's war against terrorism, 'The Closed Circle' lifts the lid on an era in which politics and presentation, ideology and the media have become virtually indistinguishable. Darkly comic, hugely engaging, and compulsively listenable, it is the much-anticipated follow-up to Jonathan Coe's bestselling novel 'The Rotters' Club', and reintroduces us to the characters first encountered in that book. But whereas 'The Rotters' Club' was a novel of innocence, 'The Closed Circle' is its opposite: a novel of experience.