'Bags of fish for cats - 50 pence'. So it was written, on a
chalkboard sign outside a fresh fishmonger's, under the arches of
the raised promenade along the beachfront of England's newly super
trendy and booming seaside City of Brighton and Hove. In Brighton
Babylon, PK Heights is a Grade II listed maisonette flat in one of
the City's up and coming Regency Squares that provides the elegant
base for a series of interlocking true stories about the city's
people and their lives. Newly relocated from London, Brighton
resident Peter Jarrette combines and intertwines his stories, using
a colourful palette that is one part Brokeback Beach and three
parts seawater. He vividly portrays a selection of suspect
characters and shocking episodes; much like the curious bits and
pieces that might be on offer in one of those bags of fish for
cats. To the author's consternation, the residents and visitors are
a thoroughly peculiar and motley crew. This former string of south
coast fishing villages with a royal and decadent past may now be a
thoroughly cosmopolitan City and even aspire to being an
international hub, but it has not yet lost its renowned and
celebrated dark side, far from it. Brighton Babylon is populated by
a cast of unsavoury hobos and bother boys; Yardie obsessed golden
shower webmasters from nearby Crawley; mistakenly racist London
hairdressers; strangely scripted market researchers; extemporised
short-haul cabin crew; pushy airline First Officers; politically
incorrect new food emporia; a vengeful, crumbling resort Pier and a
locally obsessed, cat-mad press pack.
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