Sitting in his cramped basement room in Brixton, Battersby dreams
of money, women, a T-bone steak - and a place to call his own. So he and
a group of friends decide to save up and buy a house together.
But amid grasping landlords, the temptations of spending money and the
less-than-welcoming attitude of the Mother Country, can this motley
group of hustlers and schemers, Trinidadians and Jamaicans, men and
women make their dreams a reality?
'Selvon's meticulously observed
narratives of displaced Londoners' lives created a template for how to
write about migrant, and post-migrant, London for countless writers who
have followed in his wake, including Hanif Kureishi and Zadie Smith'
Caryl Phillips
The Housing Lark - Sam Selvon
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