Three Rooms

ISBN-13: 9781787333314 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 208 str.

Jo Hamya

Opis

What is the true cost of living as a young person in 21st-century England?

 

It's autumn 2018 and a young woman moves into a rented room in university accommodation, ready to begin a job as a research assistant at Oxford. Here, living and working in the spaces that have birthed the country's leaders, she is both outsider and insider, and she can't shake the feeling that real life is happening elsewhere.

 

Eight months later she finds herself in London. She's landed a temp contract at a society magazine and is paying £80 a week to sleep on a stranger's sofa. Summer rolls on and England roils with questions around its domestic civil rights: Brexit, Grenfell, climate change, homelessness. Meanwhile, tensions with her flatmate escalate, she is overworked and underpaid, and the prospects of a permanent job seem increasingly unlikely, until finally she has to ask herself: what is this all for?

 

Incisive, original and brilliantly observed, Three Rooms is the story of a search for a home and for a self. Driven by despair and optimism in equal measure, the novel poignantly explores politics, race and belonging.

 

'Crisp and resonant... Three Rooms is a sly, artful, seductive, contentedly idiosyncratic piece of work.' New Statesman

 

'A phenomenal achievement.' The Times

 

Recenzje

A phenomenal achievement. Perfectly judged set pieces at parties, offices and art galleries are infused with the illuminating and inquiring mind of an author who watches our society with an unflinching x-ray eye and tells its stories back to us with elegance and wit. And that, surely, is the mark of an excellent writer. Melissa Katsoulis The Times

O autorze

Jo Hamya was born in London in 1997. Three Rooms is her first novel.