Over the past decade, Anthony Quinn has published a “richly pleasurable” series of novels “portraying London down the decades”, said Anthony Cummins in The Observer. Having previously progressed from the 1880s to the 1960s, the series now moves into the 1970s – a world of strikes, overflowing bins and IRA violence.
We follow four characters, whose lives are brought together by a series of accidents: Hannah, a “go-getting reporter”; Vicky, a newly promoted detective; Callum, an English lecturer from County Down; and Freddie, a priapic theatre director. Such is Quinn’s “flair for flesh-and-blood-characters”, any of these four could have carried the novel alone.
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