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'As gloriously alive as the turn of the century south London streets it portrays' RED
In August 1912, three friends set out on an adventure. Two of them come home.
Tom, Jimmy and Itzhak have grown up together in the crowded slums of Walworth. All three boys are expected to follow their father's trades and stay close to home. But Tom has wider dreams. So when he hears of a scouting trip, sailing from Waterloo to Sheppey and the mouth of the Thames - he is determined to go. And Itzhak and Jimmy go with him.
Inspired by real events, this is the story of three friends, and a tragedy that will change them for ever. It is also a song of south London, of working class families with hidden histories, of a bright and complex world long neglected. London Lies Beneath is a powerful and compelling novel, rich with life and full of wisdom.
'Vivid and full of heart, Duffy's new novel is a fitting hymn to the city that inspired it' FINANCIAL TIMES
'A paean not just to South London, but to a vanished way of working-class life . . . Duffy's narrative is as fluid as a costermonger's patter, carrying the reader along' DAILY MAIL
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About the author
Dr Stella Duffy is a psychotherapist working in private practice and teaching existential psychotherapy on the doctorate programme at NSPC. She has a doctorate in Existential Psychotherapy and her research was in the embodied experience of postmenopause. Being the Change: Thriving in Postmenopause is her first non-fiction book. She has also written seventeen novels, over seventy-five short stories and fifteen plays. She won the CWA Short Story Dagger in 2002 and 2013, Stonewall Writer of the Year in 2008 and 2010, and the Diva Literary Prize for Fiction in 2017 and 2021. Stella has been active in equalities work in the arts and LGBTQIA+ communities for many decades and was awarded the OBE for Services to the Arts in 2016.
