The residents of Pepys Road, London - a banker and his shopaholic wife, an elderly woman dying of a brain tumour, the Pakistani family who run the local shop, the young football star from Senegal and his minder - all receive anonymous postcards with a simple message: We Want What You Have.
Who is behind it? What do they want?
As the mystery of the postcards deepens, the world around Pepys Road is turned upside down by the financial crash and all of its residents' lives change beyond recognition over the course of the next year.
From the bestselling author of Whoops! and How to Speak Money comes a post-financial crisis, state-of-the-nation novel told with compassion, humour and unflinching truth.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571234622
Number of pages: 592
Weight: 460 g
Dimensions: 200 x 125 x 40 mm
Edition: Main
Interesting premise and an easy read with some genuinely funny bits. However I felt the story line and characters were overly simple and stereotyped, which was a bit disappointing. Hence, the 3 star rating.
I was really hopeful of this book. The "story behind every doorway" idea has always been attractive and here was a writer actually doing it, set in London in the present day.
The cast of characters I found...
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This story is set in our capital city and truly reflects the multi-cultural nature of our society. The author places the characters in one particular street, either because they live there or are involved with someone... More
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