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Our London Lives

By: Christine Dwyer Hickey
Narrated by: Owen Roe, Michèle Forbes
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1979. In the vast and often unforgiving city of London, two Irish outsiders seeking refuge find one another: Milly, a teenage runaway, and Pip, a young boxer full of anger and potential who is beginning to drink it all away.

Over the decades their lives follow different paths, interweaving from time to time, often in one another's sight, always on one another's mind, yet rarely together.

Forty years on, Milly is clinging onto the only home she's ever really known while Pip, haunted by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, traipses the streets of London and wrestles with the life of the recovering alcoholic. And between them, perhaps uncrossable, lies the unspoken span of their lives.

Dark and brave, this epic novel offers a rich and moving portrait of an ever-changing city, and a profound inquiry into character, loneliness and the nature of love.

©2024 Christine Dwyer Hickey (P)2024 W. F. Howes Ltd City Life Friendship Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Urban World Literature England
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A skillful writer. A book rich in love, loss and longing. I want more. Outstanding.

Outstanding.

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A great story weaving through real events of the last 50 years. The characters are well developed. Very enjoyable!

So well written

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This is a Beautifully written book, it is very poignant. The Characters were very well developed. I thoroughly enjoyed it and highly recommend it

Great story

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Loved the main Irish character voices but female English accents sounded like characters from Good night sweetheart. And male accents especially Max were grating. The less said about the Welsh AA support character accent, the better. Haha . I know the area around Farringdon and enjoyed imagining the happenings when walking down Cowcross street. I am guessing pub was based on The Castle.

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I saw this in the library, having never heard of the author. it was such a beautiful story, I loved the characters, her style. best book for a long time

I loved this.. from page 1 I was invested

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