What a Carve Up!

‘Everything a novel ought to be: courageous, challenging, funny, sad’ The Times

A brilliant noir farce, a dystopian vision and the story of an obsession. Michael is a lonely, rather pathetic writer, obsessed by the film, 'What A Carve Up!' in which a mad knifeman cuts his way through the inhabitants of a decrepit stately pile as the thunder rages.

Inexplicably, Michael is commissioned to write the family history of the Winshaws, an upper class Yorkshire clan whose members have a finger in every establishment pie. But as a murderous maniac stalks the family, Michael realizes that his favourite film is coming true.
A sustained feat of humour, suspense and polemic, full of twists and ironies
Hilary Mantel

About Jonathan Coe

Details
  • Series: Penguin Essentials #57
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780241978917
  • Length: 512 pages
  • Dimensions: 181mm x 30mm x 116mm
  • Weight: 287g
  • Price: £9.99