Dimensions
129 x 198 x 5mm
Meet the Joneses, the Iqbals and the Chalfens. Three families at the fag end of the twentieth century, all English to varying degrees and involved in each other's lives in every conceivable way. Different colours, different religions and different sides of the unforgotten colonial fence, they have one thing in common: a small borough of north London where extremism of all kinds is the order of the day and the dilemmas of previous generations are obsessively played out in the present.
'Continuum Contemporaries' is a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and reading groups, as well as for literature students at school, college and university.
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