The Champion

Charles Pemberton has lived all his life in the same small town. Its been a good life a safe life. Then sauntering boldly into this privileged world comes Clark Large Rossiter a workingclass lad with an easy charm and insatiable ambition. Large is out to upset the established order of things. He wants it all money status even revenge. But Charles and the old guard arent ready to lie down just yet and this probing portrait of the years between Thatcher and Blair catches an England unleashed from restraint at war with itself and heading for a fall. This ferociously funny novel firmly in the tradition of Money The Line of Beauty or most recently Linda Grants They Had it So Good is great English satire at its savage best.