all i have...  is a voice...  

  to undo

In the run up to publication and afterwards we have learned a lot about fiction publishing. Our forebodings have proved well grounded. Many people who have read the book - writers and politicians mostly - have responded with real and often moving enthusiasm.* The literary editors have ignored it. But perseverance is paying off. Jonathan Coe has chosen The Folded Lie as his book of the year for the Guardian,*

Jonathan Coe, author of What a Carve Up!:

Jeremy Cooper's The Folded Lie...was quite unlike any other novel published this year: a bold, radical, almost embarrassingly direct assault on modern complacencies, both political and artistic. It begins with the post-war execution of Japanese leaders and ends with the trial of John Major for war crimes committed during the Gulf conflict. Seamlessly interweaving the public and private, the book deals in complex ideas while paying scrupulous attention to the inner lives of its characters, and is a page-turner to boot. How can such a magnificently engaged and engaging novel have met with such silence?

- The Guardian 12 December 1998

some reviews are promised at last,* and it has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.* The book - with its central theme the application of an international system of justice to war crimes - has proved unnervingly timely.

 

    the folded lie...