Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World
Author: Louis de Bernières
Taking his inspiration from Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood, Louis de Bernières chose to celebrate his ten years of life in the south London suburb, living above a small shop that had been by turns an outlet for oversized naughty clothes for transvestites, a West Indian hairdressers and a junk shop, by writing of the people that he had known and come to love in his time ther….Read More
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