Summary
Soho: A Day in the Life of London’s Wildest Square Mile
No London neighbourhood more resembles the restless downstream tide of the Thames than the ragged square mile of Soho. Ask the people who live there:
- Christine Yardley, drag queen by night and grey-suited accountant by day
- Len Gates, self-appointed Soho historian and bore
- Jenny Wise, former starlet and now resident lush in the New Kismet club
- Ellis Hugo Bell, wannabe film producer who dr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444753950 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444753959 |
| Author: | Keith Waterhouse |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 28 April 2014 |
| Weight: | 165g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 132mm x 15mm |
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The work of a master
Pin-sharp and teeming with gloriously reprehensible characters - Mail on Sunday
The work of a master - The Sunday TimesEffortlessly brilliant … a comedy of London life which tastes as fresh as a new-baked croissant - Sunday TelegraphWaterhouse … at his most entertaining and mischievous - Daily ExpressAs well as being a fast-paced farce, a string of encounters and incidents that could keep a full pub of people entertained for several evenings on end, [it] is an elegy to a vanishing world. Soho the place may not be quite what it was, but in Soho the novel, Waterhouse brings it vibrantly to life - Glasgow HeraldA wonderful evocation of a part of London the author loves and he has succeeded superbly in capturing its sleazy yet alluring nature - TribuneAbout The Author
Keith Waterhouse
Keith Waterhouse published fifteen novels, including Billy Liar (which has been filmed and staged) and Our Song (also staged), seven non-fiction books and seven collections of journalism. He wrote widely for television, cinema and the theatre, including the highly successful play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell. He also published two acclaimed memoirs, City Lights and Streets Ahead. He died on 4th September 2009.
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