MIDDLE ENGLAND

Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and London, where fre nzied riots give way to Olympic fever, Middle England follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense chang e.There are newlyweds Ian and Sophie, who disagree about the future of the country and, possibly, the future of their relationship/ Doug, the political commentator who writes impassioned columns about austerity from his Chelsea townhouse, and his radical teenage d aughter w...[Read more]