“Something has gone a bit wrong in the relationship between our famous British sense of humour and our politics. They have become too entangled and our politics has become unserious” 🟠 susiemesure interviews jonathancoe
. “I’m not in any way trying to keep up with events, because that would just be impossible at the moment,” he interjects at one point when we chat over video.)Coe’s third novel in four years, opens with Lorna Lamb, a Birmingham-based receptionist by day and gigging guitarist by night, arriving in Austria for her first European tour just as Italy is locking down. At a post-gig dinner, her host grills her about the state of British politics.
In March 2020, Coe, who has two grown-up daughters, was on his own European tour for his previous novel,, being asked the same question. “My hosts were talking to me as if they were concerned friends staging an intervention. They kept asking, ‘What is going on in the UK because we’ve always looked up to your country culturally and politically and you seem to be in a bit of a mess,’” he says.
He was stuck for a concise answer but thought he might find one if he wrote a book about the end of theAnd then his mother, Janet, died at the end of the first lockdown. “I immediately felt I wanted to write something about her. And I realised that also took me back to the end of the Second World War and would bring me up to the end of her life, and I thought maybe the two novels should be the same,” says Coe, who lives with his wife, Janine, in Earl’s Court, in west London.
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