The Proof of My Innocence

A young literature graduate who rediscovers a forgotten novelist, her journalist uncle investigating secret political conferences and a murder story that becomes all too real. Coe moves between decades and genres while reimagining the coming-of-age story, the cosy crime caper and the state-of-the-nation novel with his trademark humour. This witty novel explores how the key to understanding the present is often found in the murkiest corners of the past.