Going East

by Matthew D ' Ancona (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $3.28

  London can be as pitiless as it is bountiful. No one knows that better than Mia Taylor. From a gilded life of privilege to a shabby alternative health centre in London's East End in the space of weeks. The violent tragedy that propels Mia east also pitches her unwittingly into a bigger history, a modern legend of migration and change. Mia's new life brings her into contact both with a kaleidoscope of characters who inhabit the extraordinary city of London and the burning issues that will mould its future. Politics and racism, corruption and betrayal, poverty and decadence, all smoulder side by side as the capital blazes into the new millennium. Out of the ashes emerges Mia: a troubled, questing woman who hopes to find herself by going east.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2003

  $3.28

  Cities survive by heading West in pursuit of the setting sun. But not London. With the approach of the millennium, a new tribe staked its claim to the East End, and the swirling currents of the city changed. These are not the forces that have brought Mia Taylor east, but she understands them. Her own story is one of accident, the treachery of fate. But it has cast her unwittingly in a bigger story, a modern legend of migration and change. As gripping as any thriller, Matthew d'Ancona's impressively accomplished first novel is a vivid portrait of the way we live now. It deals with the most serious contemporary issues - politics and racism, poverty and preposterous wealth, corruption and betrayal. It is peopled with the myriad characters who inhabit, rule and are ruled by the extraordinary city of London, and London is itself a central character. At its heart is a troubled, questing woman who hopes to find herself by going east.

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $12.41

  London can be as pitiless as it is bountiful. No one knows that better than Mia Taylor. From a gilded life of privilege to a shabby alternative health centre in London's East End in the space of weeks. The violent tragedy that propels Mia east also pitches her unwittingly into a bigger history, a modern legend of migration and change. Mia's new life brings her into contact both with a kaleidoscope of characters who inhabit the extraordinary city of London and the burning issues that will mould its future. Politics and racism, corruption and betrayal, poverty and decadence, all smoulder side by side as the capital blazes into the new millennium. Out of the ashes emerges Mia: a troubled, questing woman who hopes to find herself by going east.