A portrait of community life in a south London suburb, capturing diverse voices, humour, tragedy, jokes, gossip and the lives and loves of its people.
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A portrait of community life in a south London suburb, capturing diverse voices, humour, tragedy, jokes, gossip and the lives and loves of its people.
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Taking his inspiration from Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, Louis de Bernières chose to celebrate his ten years of life in the south London suburb, living above a small shop that had been by turns an outlet for oversized naughty clothes for transvestites, a West Indian hairdressers and a junk shop, by writing of the people that he had known and come to love in his time there. Brilliantly capturing the myriad voices of modern Britain, with their different rhythms of speech and accents, their humou...
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