East of Islington

Welcome to East of Islington. Stepping over the debris of the previous occupant, Sam Taylor has just moved into her first flat. Ignoring the dodgy postcode (this is so not Notting Hill), the real estate agent had trilled that this was an area with 'potential'. But as in 'East of Eden', many things go on that have little to do with paradise or passion. Except that the brooding undercurrents are delivered in a slightly more English fashion in this hilarious fictional diary of fifteen years of unadulterated gossip, and what happens when children leave their parents for the city. Meet Piano Pete, aka Pete the Plonker, who is keen for a girl friend but too mean to pay for the subscription of his dating website. Or


Genre: Literary Fiction