# The Housing Lark

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- Book: [The Housing Lark](https://www.bookquiver.com/sam-selvon/the-housing-lark) ([The Housing Lark.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sam-selvon/the-housing-lark.md))
- Authors: [Sam Selvon](https://www.bookquiver.com/sam-selvon)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- Medium: audio
- Length: 4 h 31 min
- Narrated by: Don Gilet
- ISBN: 978-02-4152-484-8
- Published: 2021-04-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 4 h 31 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. Sitting in his cramped basement room in Brixton, Battersby dreams of money, women, a T-bone steak - and a place to call his own. So he and a group of friends decide to save up and buy a house together. But amid grasping landlords, the temptations of spending money and the less-than-welcoming attitude of the Mother Country, can this motley group of hustlers and schemers, Trinidadians and Jamaicans, men and women make their dreams a reality? 'Irreverent, spirited ... a seriously funny novel' New York Review of Books 'Selvon's meticulously observed narratives of displaced Londoners' lives created a template for how to write about migrant, and postmigrant, London for countless writers who have followed in his wake, including Hanif Kureishi and Zadie Smith' Caryl Phillips © Sam Selvon 1965 (P) Penguin Audio 2021