Sam Byers discusses whether Perfidious Albion is a Brexit novel

Novelist Sam Byers talks about his novel Perfidious Albion and whether it is a Brexit novel. In Edmundsbury, a small town in eastern England, fear and loathing are on the rise. Brexit has happened and the ramifications are real. Grass-roots, right-wing political party ‘England Always’ is fomenting hatred. The residents of a failing housing estate are being cleared from their homes. A multinational tech company is making inroads into the infrastructure. A controversial tweet; a series of ill-judged think pieces; a riot of opinions – suddenly Edmundsbury is no longer the peaceful town it had always imagined itself to be… ‘A spookily prescient take on Brexit Britain . . . Sharp and mordantly funny.’ New Statesman ‘A brilliant, twitchy satire on media manipulation, grievance, one-upmanship and online echo chambers [and] a powerful, ingenious literary thriller.’ Sunday Times ‘Dizzying . . . Crackling with zeitgeisty energy.’ Observer ‘The best book about British politics I have read in some time.’ John Harris, Guardian BUY THE BOOK: Faber: https://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/produ... Hive: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Sam-By... Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/perf... Foyles: https://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/fictio... Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Perfidious-A...