Primrose Hill, Helen FalconerSi and Danny are best friends, teenage sons of single mothers in North London. Si just wants to listen to music and smoke a little dope with the hippy crowd on Primrose Hill. Danny wants Si to help him kill his junky mother's violent boyfriend. Murder isn't Si's scene until the beautiful Eleanor arrives, obsessed with sex and eager for the kill. 'I simply couldn't put the book down. Falconer shows as superb a command of structure and pacing as she

witty exploration of the nuances of a sometimes reluctant codependency

Jawad al Assadi’s cynical Arab adaptation ( Forget Hamlet )

they are from very different worlds

A father who packs furniture to move into homes he'll never afford

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this is a story that traces its way back to what brought each of these very different individuals to the same place on this fateful day

With characteristically transgressive and scorching prose

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