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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