Book 90: "The Closed Circle" by Jonathan Coe
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 23:14![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeDoug scratched his head, genuinely baffld by the direction the conversation was taking. 'Paul, the years haven't made you any less weird, you know. What do you mean "friends"? How could we ever be friends? What would this friendship consist of?'
'Well . . ' Paul had already worked out the answer to this. 'Malvina thought, for instance, that since you and I had children of about the same age, we could maybe introduce them and see if they wanted to play together.'
'Let me get this straight,' said Doug: Your media advisor is suggesting that your children and my children should play together? I've never heard anything so ridiculous!'
Starting when the teenagers of "The Rotters Club" are in their mid-thirties, this book follows them through the next few years. The story unfolds as New Labour ditches its socialist principles in favour of the 'third way' and BMW threatens to close Rover's Longbridge plant at Birmingham, where some of the characters' fathers used to work.
'Well . . ' Paul had already worked out the answer to this. 'Malvina thought, for instance, that since you and I had children of about the same age, we could maybe introduce them and see if they wanted to play together.'
'Let me get this straight,' said Doug: Your media advisor is suggesting that your children and my children should play together? I've never heard anything so ridiculous!'
Starting when the teenagers of "The Rotters Club" are in their mid-thirties, this book follows them through the next few years. The story unfolds as New Labour ditches its socialist principles in favour of the 'third way' and BMW threatens to close Rover's Longbridge plant at Birmingham, where some of the characters' fathers used to work.
