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Becky, Harry, and Leon are leaving London in a fourth-hand Ford with a suitcase full of stolen money, in a mess of tangled loyalties and impulses. But can they truly leave the city that's in their bones?

Kate Tempest's novel reaches back through time--through tensely quiet dining rooms and crassly loud clubs--to the first time Becky and Harry meet. It sprawls through their lives and those they touch--of their families and friends and faces on the street--revealing intimacies and the moments that make them. And it captures the contemporary struggle of urban life, of young people seeking jobs or juggling jobs, harboring ambitions and making compromises.

The Bricks that Built the Houses is an unexpected love story. It's about being young, but being part of something old. It's about how we become ourselves, and how we effect our futures. Rich in character and restless in perspective, driven by ethics and empathy, it asks--and seeks to answer--how best to live with and love one another.

Kate Tempest, a major talent in the poetry and music worlds, sits poised to become a major novelist as well. Read Online Book The Bricks that Built the Houses by Kate Tempest Full Free

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"A novel that perfectly captures the modern trials and tribulations of youth and urban life in London." ―BuzzFeed

"[Tempest is] a Zadie Smith if Smith were in her 20s again . . . An artistic prodigy . . . [Her] captivating The Bricks That Built the Houses is rich in detail, clever in plot and filled with characters who live on the edge but never quite give up." ―Shelf Awareness

"With a scope that rivals Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex, Tempest juggles themes of family, history, and womanhood." ―Booklist

"This is a bold, bright, beguiling novel; a lustrous pageant that dazzles and grips . . . [Tempest] may well be unstoppable." ―Sunday Telegraph

"Blake, Shakespeare, Eliot, the Wu-Tang Clan: when an artist’s outlook on boundaries is so dizzyingly open, you long to know what happens next." ―The Guardian

"Tempest is brilliant at capturing a distinctly contemporary state of mind . . . Her writing has a startling, unmediated freshness." ―Metro

"[This] fast-paced, filmic narrative brims with energy." ―Vogue UK

"It’s hard not to be blown away by Kate Tempest . . . A stirring, post-Dickensian lens trained on London’s lonely underbelly." ―Evening Standard

"She has that vanishingly rare combination of heavyweight literary credentials and, having started out as a spoken-word artist on the hip-hop scene, a deep understanding of [London] at street level. Both of these aspects of her writing shine through in The Bricks That Built the Houses, which is as lyrical as it is gritty." ―New Statesman

"Tempest is a worthy champion for a generation of disillusioned youth." ―Sunday Times

"A virtuoso . . . Tempest threads a needle between Pete Rock and Homer . . . [She is] reporting live from the Colosseum, reminding us that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." ―Barnes and Noble Review

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