The Room of Lost Things
Publication details: United Kingdom; Little, Brown Book Group; 2009Description: 313 Pages; PaperbackISBN:- 9781844082131
- 823.914
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Karachi Adult Fiction | 823.91 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | PKLC009386 | |||
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Lahore Adult Fiction | 823.91 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Withdrawn | For Sale | PKLC004534 |
Under his railway arch in Loughborough Junction, South London, Robert Sutton is taking leave of a lifetime of hard work. His dry-cleaning shop lies at the heart of a lively community, a fixed point in a changing world. And, as he explains to his successor, young East Londoner Akeel, it is also the resting place for the contents of his customers' pockets - and for their secrets and lies. As he helps Akeel to make a new life out of his old one, Robert also hands on all he knows of his world: the dirty dip of the Thames; the parks, rare green oases in a desert of high-rises and decaying mansion blocks; and the varied lives that converge at the junction. Humming with life, packed tight with detail, The Room of Lost Things is a hymn of love to a great and overflowing city, and a profoundly human story that holds us in its grip from the first sentence until the last.
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