Isabel Wolff's top 10 books set in the Midlands

Novelist Isabel Wolff was born and brought up in Warwickshire and is the author of six bestselling romantic comedies, the latest of which is A Question of Love. She chooses her top 10 books set in her old stamping ground, the Midlands.
Rotters' Club
By Jonathan Coe
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Published 19-May-2008
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Tells the tale of Benjamin Trotter and his friends' coming of age during the 1970s is a heartfelt celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up. Featuring, among other things, IRA bombs, prog rock, punk rock, bad poetry, first love, love on the side.
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Unfortunates
By B S Johnson
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Published 15-Nov-2007
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Middlemarch
By George Eliot
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Published 30-Jan-2003
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Features Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; and the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career.
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Tom Brown's Schooldays
By Hughes
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Published 12-Jun-2008
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A classic of Victorian literature, Tom Brown's Schooldays has long had an influence well beyond the middle-class, public school world it describes.
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Rainbow
By D H Lawrence
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Published 05-May-1995
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Explains about three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire from the 1840s to the early years of the twentieth century. This framework is with the passional lives of author's characters as he explores the pressures that determine their lives, using a religious symbolism in which the 'rainbow' of the title is his unifying motif.
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