Questions About What a Carve Up! (The Winshaw Legacy, #1)

by Jonathan Coe (Goodreads Author)

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Is there cruelty to animals in this book? I can't really cope with that but apart from that, the book sounds interesting!

Lisa Yes there is, in the Dorothy section. It’s very grim. Obviously put there to show how foul and greedy people can be but it’s very tough reading.

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what is the genre for Winshaw legacy?

Huck Flynn I presume this is an alternative title for What a Carve Up?
It's social and political satire, the various members of the Winshaw tribe represent all th…moreI presume this is an alternative title for What a Carve Up?
It's social and political satire, the various members of the Winshaw tribe represent all that is bad about Britain in the 80's in the fields of politics, industry, arts and media; they are a shallow, greedy, heartless bunch, rotten to the core with few exceptions and they have profound and shocking effects on the other characters in the book. The book is also a comical Carry On gothic hammer horror mystery and finally, in some ways a touching life story of Michael Owen the narrator of, the writer of the Winshaw History, who is not very good at relationships. But that doesn't really matter because it is very entertaining. Time for Coe to write another history of the modern selfie-obsessed internet age(less)

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