Former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher will be kept in hospital for "several days" as a "precautionary measure" after breaking her arm in a fall at home, her spokesman said today.
Jonathan Coe's novels tend to combine comic burlesque with political satire, famously epitomised in What A Carve Up! – a riotous send-up of Thatcher's Britain.
What: A visceral, witty and acutely observed study of racism and homophobia in Thatcher's Britain. The story concerns the apparent rekindling of a gay love affair between two teenage ex-schoolmates: a Pakistani laundrette worker Omar (Gordon Warnecke), and a lad called Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis) who has fallen in with a gang of aggressive right-wing extremists.