Capital
Book description
** From the author of The Wall **
Adapted into an Emmy Award-winning BBC One drama
'Effortlessly brilliant . . . hugely moving and outrageously funny.' Observer
The residents of Pepys Road, London - a banker and his shopaholic wife, an elderly woman dying of a brain tumour, the Pakistani…
Why read it?
2 authors picked Capital as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
As relevant now as it was 10 years ago, this is a wonderful fictional tale of a street in London.
You can get lost in the characters of Pepys Road but underlying it is a morality tale of money and greed in London.
I found I couldn’t put it down the first time or the second; it is a Dickens of our time novel.
This book follows a year in the lives of the occupants of a London street and the people who work for them. The guaranteed wealth of those who are lucky enough to own houses in the street – where property prices have soared – is contrasted with the struggles of those who keep the lives of the homeowners on track: the Polish builder, the Hungarian nanny, the Kamal family who run the shop at the end of the road. This is a moral fable about money, but it’s also a witty, perceptive story that gallops along and is hard to…
From Sarah's list on domestic dramas making you glad life is normal.
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