What a Carve Up! Audiobook (Free)

Penguin presents the audiobook model of What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe, read by Richard Goulding.

It’s the 1980s and the Winshaw family members are receiving richer and crueller by the year:

Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it enjoy it isn’t; Henry’s turning hospitals into car parks; Roddy’s selling art in substitution for sex; down on the farm Dorothy’s squeezing every last pound from her livestock; Thomas is making a eliminating on the stock exchange; and Mark is definitely selling arms to in what a Carve Up! dictators.

But once their hapless biographer Michael Owen starts investigating the family’s path of greed, corruption and immoral doings, enough time growing ripe for the Winshaws to get their comeuppance .

This wickedly funny undertake life under the Thatcher government was the winner from the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

‘A sustained feat of humour, suspense and polemic, filled with twists and ironies’ Hilary Mantel, Weekend Times

‘A riveting public satire for the chattering and all-powerful upper classes’ Time Out

‘Big, hilarious, elaborate, furious, moving’ Guardian

Jonathan Coe’s novels are filled with biting social commentary, moving and astute observations of life and hilarious set pieces that have produced him perhaps one of the most popular writers of his era. His other titles, The Accidental Girl, Some Like, The Rotters’ Membership (winner of the Everyman Wodehouse prize), The Closed Group, The Terrible Personal privacy of Maxwell Sim, THE HOME of Rest (champion of the1998 Prix Médicis Étranger), as well as the Rain Before it Falls, are available in Penguin paperback.