# The Proof of My Innocence

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- Authors: [Jonathan Coe](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-coe)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2024-11-07
- Genres: Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Crime and / or mystery fiction

## Description

Post-university life doesn’t suit Phyl. Time passes slowly, living with her parents and working a zero-hours contract at Heathrow Airport, while her budding plans of becoming a writer are going nowhere. That is, until family friend Chris comes to stay. He’s been investigating a radical think tank, founded at Cambridge University in the 1980s, that’s been scheming to push the British government in an ever more extreme direction. When he follows this story to a conference in a rambling old hotel deep in the Cotswolds, events take a bizarre and sinister turn. Soon he is caught up in a world of cryptic clues, secret passages and, eventually, murder. In the end, despite the efforts of a suitably eccentric detective, it falls to Phyl herself – ably assisted by Chris’s outspoken adopted daughter Rashida - to look for answers to the fatal mystery. But will they lie in contemporary politics, or in a literary enigma that is almost forty years old?

## Editions

### The Proof of My Innocence

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-14-0596-241-4
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2025-10-02
- Language: en_GB

### The Proof of My Innocence

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0596-242-1
- Published: 2024-11-07
- Language: en_GB

### The Proof of My Innocence

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 12 h 15 min
- Narrated by: Sam Woolf, Alana Maria, Charlotte Worthing, Mark Stobbart, Roy McMillan
- ISBN: 978-14-0596-314-5
- Published: 2024-11-07
- Language: en_GB