The Bricks that Built the Houses

✍ Scribed by Tempest, Kate

• Book ID: 109291098
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 189 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781408857311

✦ Synopsis

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 _**.

**_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.

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.

In _The Bricks...