# Mother London

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- Book: [Mother London](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-moorcock/mother-london) ([Mother London.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-moorcock/mother-london.md))
- Authors: [Michael Moorcock](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-moorcock)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- ISBN: 978-14-7321-325-8
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2016-06-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Shortlisted for the Whitbread prize, MOTHER LONDON is a dazzling journey through the heart of a city that the author loved. Spanning generations of characters across a variety of boroughs from the Blitz to the mid-eighties, this is a book about the real London that tourists will never find, a London which is being erased by the spread of high-rise flats and shining skyscrapers. Following a group of released mental patients across the years and streets of London, Moorcock creates a vivid impressionistic portrait of the city, from its downtrodden pubs to its green parks. All of the lead characters hear voices - but are they the murmurings of their damaged minds, or the true voice of the city?