# England’s Lane

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- Book: [England’s Lane](https://www.bookquiver.com/joseph-connolly/englands-lane) ([England’s Lane.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/joseph-connolly/englands-lane.md))
- Authors: [Joseph Connolly](https://www.bookquiver.com/joseph-connolly)
- Publisher: riverrun
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-17-8087-720-4
- Published: 2012-08-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE: AS IF THE ROYLE FAMILY WERE WRITTEN BY MARTIN AMIS 'Vibrant tragicomic slices of cosmopolitan Englishness' Independent on Sunday 'May well be his masterpiece . . . a rich and compelling drama of life' Daily Mail 'Virtuosic farce and razor-edged comedy of manners' Independent Jim and Milly. Stan and Jane. Jonathan and Fiona. Winter, 1959. Three married couples: each living in England's Lane, each with an only child, and each attending to family, and their livelihoods - the ironmonger, the sweetshop and the butcher. Each of them hiding their lies, coping in the only way they know how. 'He remains essentially a comic novelist, but one whose work has its dark, even sinister side . . . There is no other novelist today who writes quite like Connolly' Scotsman