East of Islington: A Novel of Metropolitan Life

by Sam Taylor

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Welcome to Sam Taylor's world. A single girl with a dog, she moves into a new flat and tumbles headlong into a rollercoaster life in a dodgy postcode with 'potential'. Female friends, hopeless bachelors, would-be artists, poets dressed as reindeers, rabbis, lesbian mums, conflicted vicars, and a bewildered boyfriend, are all thrown together through chance and circumstance. From the moment she arrives and discovers her neighbours rehearsing opera al fresco at midnight, their collective tales of romance, aspiration and embarrassing failure bind them together into one mad, idiosyncratic family. For anyone who has ever lived in a flat or just waved someone off to the city, here is an irrepressible dose of laugh-out-loud humour ...
  • ISBN10 1903933692
  • ISBN13 9781903933695
  • Publish Date 16 September 2010
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 10 March 2011
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Gibson Square Books Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 304
  • Language English