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Jonathan Coe’s raucous social satire smoulders with anger

Number 11 is a bitter exposé of modern materialistic Britain — glued to sadistic reality TV in luxury basement conversions

14 November 2015

9:00 AM

14 November 2015

9:00 AM

Number 11 Jonathan Coe

Viking, pp.368, £16.99, ISBN: 9780670923793

When Rachel, one of the unreliable narrators of Number 11, wants to ‘go back to the very beginning’, she starts with the death of Dr David Kelly, the former United Nations weapons inspector, discovered dead in woodland on Harrowdown Hill in Oxfordshire on 18 July 2003, shortly after casting doubt on the government dossier that claimed Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.

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