The Bricks That Built The Houses by Kate Tempest
Three young Londoners flee the city with a suitcase of cash, and the narrative rewinds through their intertwined pasts to show how love, ambition, and economic pressure pulled them together and pushed them toward crime. Moving through estates, cafes, and clubs, it paints a lyrical, unsentimental portrait of working-class lives in South London as they navigate gentrification, family legacies, and the hard choices between staying put and striking out.
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- 2016
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- British
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- Original Language
- English
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