Middle England

Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories are replaced by Poundland, and London, where frenzied riots give way to Olympic fever, MIDDLE ENGLAND follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense change. And within all these lives is the story of modern England: a story of nostalgia and delusion; of bewilderment and barely-suppressed rage. The novel for our strange new times.