# The Closed Circle

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- Book: [The Closed Circle](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-coe/the-closed-circle) ([The Closed Circle.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-coe/the-closed-circle.md))
- Authors: [Jonathan Coe](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-coe)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-772-0
- Pages: 448
- Published: 2014-06-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a superficially cool, sexed-up new version of the country, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his parents' TV. Watching, in fact, his younger brother, Paul, now a bright young New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Blairite dream. Neither of them can know that their lives are about to implode. Set against the backdrop of a changing Britain and the country's increasingly compromised role in America's 'war against terrorism', the characters struggle to make sense of the perennial problems of love, vocation and family.