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‘The satirical English novel of the decade’ Observer
From the moment an unemployed City broker is devoured by an escapee from the Zoo, we are embarked upon a dazzling journey through ’90s London. A city peopled by a rich and varied cast of characters with intriguingly different backgrounds: from the City, to journalism, the criminal underworld, advertising, music hall and the East End… while lurking in the background is nemesis, in the shape of a hungry lion.
‘Does for London what Bonfire of the Vanities did for New York.’ The Sunday Times
From the moment an unemployed City broker is devoured by an escapee from the Zoo, we are embarked upon a dazzling journey through ’90s London. A city peopled by a rich and varied cast of characters with intriguingly different backgrounds: from the City, to journalism, the criminal underworld, advertising, music hall and the East End… while lurking in the background is nemesis, in the shape of a hungry lion.
‘Does for London what Bonfire of the Vanities did for New York.’ The Sunday Times
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Reviews
The satirical English novel of the decade.
Genuine art . . . not since Timothy Mo's Sour Sweet, or even Graham Green's It's a Battlefield has there been such an incisive and comic picture of London.
A powerfully written and wonderfully contemporary novel.
Does for London what Bonfire of the Vanities did for New York.