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After ten years living abroad, Tarquin Hall wanted to return to his native London. Lured by his nostalgia for a leafy suburban childhood spent in south-west London, he returned with his Indian-born, American fiance in tow. But, priced out of the housing market, they found themselves living not in a townhouse, oozing Victorian charm, but in a squalid attic above a Bangladeshi sweatshop on London's Brick Lane. A grimy skylight provided the only window on their new world: a filthy, noisy street where drug dealers and prostitutes peddled their wares and tramps urinated on the pavements. At night, traffic lights lit up the ceiling and police sirens wailed into the early hours.
Yet, as Hall got to know Brick Lane, he discovered beneath its unlovely surface an inner world where immigrants and asylum seekers struggle to better themselves and dream of escape. Salaam Brick Lane is a journey of discovery by an outsider in his own native city. It offers an explicit glimpse of the underbelly of London's most infamous quarter, the real-life world of Monica Ali's bestselling novel.
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Well-written without mawkish pieties. (Saga Magazine)
'Charming, brilliant, affectionate and quietly impassioned ... it manages to be balanced, humane and life-affirming. I hope it sells out faster than cases of Chalky's "Coat de Roen"'. (Guardian)
Tarquin Hall is right at the heart of what he writes about . . . Hall's new friends spring brilliantly to life off the page . . . it's hard to imagine a more moving or more telling record of lives on the edge (Caroline Gascoigne, Sunday Times)
Amused and amusing, this is a refreshing addition to the accounts being offered of the area. (Stratford Recorder)
Forthright and funny (Daily Telegraph)
Fascinating and funny (Canterbury, Herne Bay, Whitstable & Faversham Focu)
Powerful (Kent Messenger)
I was absolutely riveted. It's funny, enlightening and very moving . . . I'm recommending it to all my friends just because it's such a good read. (Kate Fox, author of Watching the English)
He has a fine ear for the myriad speech patterns of the East End's varied inhabitants. (Daily Mail)
A remarkable cross-section of British society . . . Hall's sympathetic, anecdotal approach is a fine counter to the appalling racism of much current tabloid journalism . . . This is a fine and eloquent book. (What's On UK)
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'Charming, brilliant, affectionate and quietly impassioned ... it manages to be balanced, humane and life-affirming. I hope it sells out faster than cases of Chalky's "Coat de Roen"'. (Guardian)
Tarquin Hall is right at the heart of what he writes about . . . Hall's new friends spring brilliantly to life off the page . . . it's hard to imagine a more moving or more telling record of lives on the edge (Caroline Gascoigne, Sunday Times)
Amused and amusing, this is a refreshing addition to the accounts being offered of the area. (Stratford Recorder)
Forthright and funny (Daily Telegraph)
Fascinating and funny (Canterbury, Herne Bay, Whitstable & Faversham Focu)
Powerful (Kent Messenger)
I was absolutely riveted. It's funny, enlightening and very moving . . . I'm recommending it to all my friends just because it's such a good read. (Kate Fox, author of Watching the English)
He has a fine ear for the myriad speech patterns of the East End's varied inhabitants. (Daily Mail)
A remarkable cross-section of British society . . . Hall's sympathetic, anecdotal approach is a fine counter to the appalling racism of much current tabloid journalism . . . This is a fine and eloquent book. (What's On UK)
SALAAM BRICK LANE provides a rare view of London's underbelly, providing an insight that no other contemporary account has achieved. Hall meets and befriends an extraordinary cast of characters and it his keen observation and sympathetic eye that makes the book such an enthralling read. There’s Mr. Ali, his freeloading slum landlord who runs a sweatshop in the basement; Sadiy, the cantankerous Jewish widow downstairs who hides a painful secret; the Afghan searching for his brother, lost on the journey from Pakistan; Chalky, an eel poacher who sells hooky gear in the Sunday market; Mrs. Abdul Haq, the estate agent's cloistered wide who is suddenly plunged into independence when her controlling husband drops dead; and Naziz, the former Bangladeshi gang member who has turned his back on crime and spends his days in the depths of the Whitechapel Library, once known to the East End Jews as the University of the Poor. As unlikely chast of characters as you ever likely to find -- all from very different backgrounds with no apparent connection to one another, but all neighbours living on or around the extraordinary street that is Brick Lane.
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