The Room Of Lost Things (Paperback)

Under his railway arch in Loughborough Junction, South London, Robert Sutton is taking leave of a lifetime of hard work. His dry-cleaning shop lies at the heart of a lively community, a fixed point in a changing world. And, as he explains to his successor, young East Londoner Akeel, it is also the resting place for the contents of his customers' pockets - and for their secrets and lies. As he helps Akeel to make a new life out of his old one, Robert also hands on all he knows of his world: the dirty dip of the Thames; the parks, rare green oases in a desert of high-rises and decaying mansion blocks; and the varied lives that converge at the junction. Humming with life, packed tight with detail, The Room of Lost Things is a hymn of love to a great and overflowing city, and a profoundly human story that holds us in its grip from the first sentence until the last.

General

Imprint:	Virago Press Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2009
Authors:	Stella Duffy
Dimensions:	197 x 131 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-84408-213-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-84408-213-X
Barcode:	9781844082131

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