by Kate Tempest - £8.99 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (2017)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9781408857335 | ISBN 10: 1408857332
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Award-winning poet and rapper Kate Tempest's electrifying debut novel takes us into the beating heart of the capital in this multi-generational tale of drugs, desire and belonging.
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It gets into your bones. You don't even realise it, until you're driving through it, watching all the things you've always known and leaving them behind.
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Young Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are leaving town in a fourth-hand Ford Cortina with a suitcase full of money. They are running from jealous boyfriends, dead-end jobs, violent maniacs and disgruntled drug dealers, in the hope of escaping the restless tedium of life in south-east London � the place they have always called home.
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As the story moves back in time, to before they had to leave, we see them torn between confidence and self-loathing, between loneliness and desire, between desperate ambition and the terrifying prospect of getting nothing done.
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In The Bricks that Built The Houses Kate Tempest explores contemporary city life with a powerful moral microscope, giving us irresistible stories of hidden lives, and showing us how the best intentions don't always lead to the right decisions.
(Price & availability last checked: November 2017)
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