This Lovely City

Author(s): Louise Hare

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The drinks are flowing. The music's playing. But the party can't last.


London, 1950. With the Blitz over and London still rebuilding after the war, jazz musician Lawrie Matthews has answered England's call for help. Arriving from Jamaica aboard the Empire Windrush, he's taken a tiny room in south London lodgings, and has fallen in love with the girl next door.


Touring Soho's music halls by night, pacing the streets as a postman by day, Lawrie has poured his heart into his new home -- and it's alive with possibility. Until one morning, while crossing a misty common, he makes a terrible discovery.


As the local community rallies, fingers of blame are pointed at those who had recently been welcomed with open arms. And before long, London's newest arrivals become the prime suspects in a tragedy which threatens to tear the city apart. Immersive, poignant, and utterly compelling, Louise Hare's debut examines the complexities of love and belonging, and teaches us that even in the face of anger and fear, there is always hope.

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Hare's debut is about a Jamaican jazz musician, and Windrush immigrant, living in London in 1950. Whilst working as a postman, he makes a startling discovery that has effects across all of London. Hare's exceptional attention to detail is what makes this novel stand above the rest and it contains something for everyone: thrilling, romantic and historically accurate - Elisa, Book Grocer

General Fields

  • : 9780008334550
  • : Harlequin Enterprises (Australia) Pty, Limited
  • : HQ
  • : 0.4
  • : February 2020
  • : 2.5 Centimeters X 15.4 Centimeters X 22.2 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 400
  • : 823.92
  • : 2003
  • : Paperback
  • : Louise Hare