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The Bricks that Built the Houses
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It gets into your bones. You don't even realise it, until you're driving through it, watching all the things you've always known and leaving them behind. This corner of the city. Everything is yours and nothing else exists but this. South London.
Young Londoners Becky, Harry, and Leon are escaping the city with a suitcase full of stolen money. Taking us back in time and into the heart of the capital, The Bricks that Built the Houses explores a cross-section of contemporary urban life with a powerful moral and literary microscope. It exposes the everyday stories that lie behind the tired faces on the morning commute and what happens when your best intentions don’t always lead to the right decisions.
Wise but never cynical, and driven by empathy and ethics, it leads us into the homes and hearts of ordinary people and their families and communities, giving us a unique perspective on how we live with and love each other.
The Bricks that Built the Houses introduces a thrilling new literary voice.
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Kae Tempest's The Bricks that Built the Houses is widely praised for its boundless talent and mesmerising storytelling. It celebrates humanity in all its imperfections, delivering vivid and powerful imagery that captivates the reader's imagination. The narrative has been described as both thrilling and galvanising, making Tempest a unique voice with a growing and devoted following.
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ISBN: 9781408857335
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 09 March 2017
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 28.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 290g
Pages: 416
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About the Author
Poet, rapper, playwright and novelist Kate Tempest grew up in south-east London, where she still lives. Her epic poem, Brand New Ancients – a modern-day myth set in south London – won the Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry in 2013, making her the first-ever recipient under 40. Her plays include GlassHouse, Wasted and Hopelessly Devoted. Her debut solo album, Everybody Down, a narrative-led hip hop record based on The Bricks that Built the Houses, was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize 2014. Kate Tempest’s second poetry collection, Hold Your Own was published in 2014, when she was also named by the Poetry Society as a Next Generation Poet, a once a decade accolade. The Bricks that Built the Houses is her first novel.
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