What a Carve Up! Audiobook By Jonathan Coe cover art

What a Carve Up!

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for $0.00
Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.

What a Carve Up!

By: Jonathan Coe
Narrated by: Richard Goulding
Try for $0.00

$0.00/mo. after 3 months. Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $17.43

Buy for $17.43

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

About this listen

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe, read by Richard Goulding.

It is the 1980s, and the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueller by the year: newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn't; Henry's turning hospitals into car parks; Roddy's selling art in return for sex; down on the farm Dorothy's squeezing every last pound from her livestock; Thomas is making a killing on the stock exchange; and Mark is selling arms to dictators.

But once their hapless biographer, Michael Owen, starts investigating the family's trail of greed, corruption and immoral doings, the time is growing ripe for the Winshaws to receive their comeuppance....

This wickedly funny take on life under the Thatcher government was the winner of the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.

Jonathan Coe's novels are filled with biting social commentary, moving and astute observations of life and hilarious set pieces that have made him one of the most popular writers of his generation.

©2019 Jonathan Coe (P)2019 Penguin Audio Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Political Satire

Critic reviews

"A sustained feat of humour, suspense and polemic, full of twists and ironies." (Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times)

"A riveting social satire on the chattering and all-powerful upper classes." (Time Out)

"Big, hilarious, intricate, furious, moving." (Guardian)
All stars
Most relevant  
The plot, the narration, the intricate built characters had me listening non stop. After the Trotter trilogy, this book by Jonathan Coe is another masterpiece!

excellent storytelling, could not stop listening

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
loved everything in this novel. it was touching, funny, mesmerizing and thought-provoking. lovely narration. one of the best audio books i listened to ever. will definitely look for Jonathan Coe's other works.

Bravo! A masterpiece political-comical-romantic-horror novel

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.