Synopsis
This novel, from the author of "Ways of Telling", concerns a group of friends in Brixton whose lives offer a complex commentary on the experience of post-modernity.
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'Of all the hyped novels about 1980s London it remains one of the most genuine' Peter Jukes, NEW STATESMAN *'Captures the vigour and life of Brixton ... there are vivid tableux of street life, shot through a compassionate lens ... sustained and powerful' SUNDAY TIMES * 'Dyer writes crisp Martin Amis-inflected prose, full of acute and neat phrases' TLS
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* A wonderful, nostalgic novel about youth in London in the 1980s
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