Vauxhall

2014 | Fiction & Poetry

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Gabriel Gbadamosi's debut novel is a tender and occasionally dark portrait of a child growing up and looking for his place in inner city London. You can read an extract here.
Synopsis
Police, methylated tramps, Nigerian royalty, gypsies, Irish aunts, teachers, thieves, cockneys and homesick Jamaicans clamour for young Michael's attention. His world is bursting with all walks of Lambeth life in the early 1970s. Among the terraces, railway arches, bombsites and river mud of Vauxhall, he discovers the meaning of slum clearance: the world he knows is disappearing. As his certainty in the fragile world around him begins to crumble so too does his parent's relationship and his mother's health. Vauxhall is a tender and occasionally dark portrait of a child looking for his place in inner city London.

Gabriel Gbadamosi (Author)