'A furious encapsulation of Generation Rent.' OLIVIA LAING, NEW
STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 'Cool, sharp and perceptive.'
Stylist What is the true cost of living as a young person in
21st-century England? It's autumn 2018 and a young woman moves into
a rented room in university accommodation, ready to begin a job as
a research assistant at Oxford. Here, living and working in the
spaces that have birthed the country's leaders, she is both
outsider and insider, and she can't shake the feeling that real
life is happening elsewhere. Eight months later she finds herself
in London. She's landed a temp contract at a society magazine and
is paying GBP80 a week to sleep on a stranger's sofa. Summer rolls
on and England roils with questions around its domestic civil
rights: Brexit, Grenfell, climate change, homelessness. Meanwhile,
tensions with her flatmate escalate, she is overworked and
underpaid, and the prospects of a permanent job seem increasingly
unlikely, until finally she has to ask herself: what is this all
for? Incisive, original and brilliantly observed, Three Rooms is
the story of a search for a home and for a self. Driven by despair
and optimism in equal measure, the novel poignantly explores
politics, race and belonging. 'From the first paragraph, I was
hooked... There's quiet, raw power in this book and its author.'
COURTTIA NEWLAND, OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 'A phenomenal
achievement.' The Times 'One of the most candid and subtle
explorations of class by an English novelist in recent years.' TLS
'A biting dissection of privilege, race, inequality and ideology in
21st century Britain.' i 'Jo Hamya is an exceptionally gifted
writer...slowly but surely broke my heart.' CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT
'Intelligent, melancholy, funny and subtle.' CHRIS POWER 'Both
spectral and steeped in contemporary reality.' OLIVIA SUDJIC
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