LONDON – The amuse bouche of city literary writing

• Book: city-lit London
• Location: London
• Author: Heather Reyes

Review Author: tripfiction

I am a Londoner by birth and so I was keen to read city-lit London, and was charmed by the chosen passages from top authors. For me it was like having a box of chocolates, each featured author just captured the feel of parts of the city. Observations about queuing or food habits, or the great North/South Divide (referring of course to the Thames that divides the city). Pageantry in the capable hands of Jan Morris (A Writer’s World) Colin MacInnes extolls the virtues of the Thames embankment fictional character Henry Perowne gazes across the city in Iain McEwan’s novel Saturday the run down streets of Hackney contrast with the wealth of the city, and Brick Lane comes to technicolor life in Monica Ali’s capable hands.

I revisited my home city through the fresh eyes of authors both contemporary and historical and this is a wonderful way to connect with and understand the bustling metropolis.

Tina for the TripFiction Team

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