{"product_id":"coe-j-touch-of-love-9780241967782","title":"Coe J Touch of Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Touch of Love \u003c\/i\u003eis Jonathan Coe''s delightfully comic and moving novel about not fitting in\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobin, a postgraduate student in Coventry, has spent four and a half years not writing his thesis. He and his academic colleagues, united by pallor, social ineptitude and sexual inexperience, once spent hours discussing their theories, but they somehow never made it into print.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow his unfinished thesis languishes in a drawer, and Robin hides in his room, increasingly frightened by a world he doesn''t understand. His friends have failed him and romance eludes him. His only outlet is his short stories, scribbled in notebooks and expressing his secret obsessions and frustrations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen, when an unfortunate and embarrassing incident in a public park lands him in serious trouble, Robin''s life finally spirals out of control. . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Touch of Love\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant, bittersweet book that will be enjoyed by readers of David Nicholls, Nick Hornby and lovers of comic fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A magnetic, moving tale'' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Very funny'' \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Witty and astringently intelligent'' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Coe''s novels are filled with moving, astute observations of life and love, and are written with a revealing honesty that has captivated a generation of readers. His other titles, \u003ci\u003eThe Accidental Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rotters'' Club\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Everyman Wodehouse prize), \u003ci\u003eThe Closed Circle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Dwarves of Death\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe House of Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the 1998 Prix Médicis Étranger), \u003ci\u003eA Touch of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhat a Carve Up!\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), \u003ci\u003eMiddle England \u003c\/i\u003e(Costa Novel Award), \u003ci\u003eMr Wilder and Me\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBournville\u003c\/i\u003e are all available in Penguin paperback.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eWritten with his signature wit, Jonathan Coe''s unmissable new novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Proof of My Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cu\u003e, is available to order now!\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017706635607,"sku":"9780241967782","price":14.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241967782.jpg?v=1750774398","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/coe-j-touch-of-love-9780241967782","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}