- Published: 2 April 2020
- ISBN: 9780141992594
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 160
The Housing Lark
- Published: 2 April 2020
- ISBN: 9780141992594
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 160
Selvon's meticulously observed narratives of displaced Londoners' lives created a template for how to write about migrant, and postmigrant, London for countless writers who have followed in his wake, including Hanif Kureishi and Zadie Smith ... The Housing Lark is a a fine, and unfairly neglected, companion novel to The Lonely Londoners
Caryl Phillips
A unique and wonderful novel, comic and serious, cynical and tender-hearted ... With its surprisingly happy ending and irreverent, spirited wit, The Housing Lark goes against the grain of much postcolonial literature ... Funny, serious, innovative, multilingual, musical, The Housing Lark shows how literary expression can create community across race, gender, place, and time
Dohra Ahmad
A vibrant comic classic ... perfectly observed
Colin Grant, Observer