# What a Carve Up!

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- Book: [What A Carve Up!](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-coe/what-a-carve-up) ([What A Carve Up!.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-coe/what-a-carve-up.md))
- Authors: [Jonathan Coe](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-coe)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-779-9
- Pages: 512
- Published: 2025-11-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A brilliant noir farce, a dystopian vision and the story of an obsession. Michael is a lonely, rather pathetic writer, obsessed by the film 'What A Carve Up!', in which a mad knifeman cuts his way through the inhabitants of a decrepit stately pile as the thunder rages. Inexplicably, Michael is commissioned to write the family history of the Winshaws, an upper class Yorkshire clan whose members have a finger in every establishment pie. But as a murderous maniac stalks the family, Michael realizes that his favourite film is coming true.