Three Rooms

Something about your generation I've noticed, she said not unkindly once I had fallen silent, is that you give up very easily. <BR><BR> Autumn 2018. A young woman starts a job as a research assistant at Oxford. But she can't shake the feeling that real life is happening elsewhere.<BR><BR> Eight months later she finds herself in London. She's landed a temp contract at a society magazine and is paying £80 a week to sleep on a stranger's sofa. As the summer rolls on, tensions with her flatmate escalate. She is overworked and underpaid, spends her free time calculating the increasing austerity in England through the rising cost of Freddos. <BR><BR>The prospects of a permanent job seem increasingly unlikely, until she finally asks herself: is it time to give up?<BR><BR>**A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR **<BR>________________________________<BR><BR>PRAISE FOR THREE ROOMS<BR>'I was bowled over by this barbed, supple book...spiky, unsettling.' OLIVIA LAING<BR>'Cool, sharp and perceptive' Stylist<BR>'Crisp and resonant' New Statesman<BR>'A phenomenal achievement' The Times<BR>'One of the most candid and subtle explorations of class by an English novelist in recent years' TLS<BR>'A biting dissection of privilege, race, inequality and ideology in 21st century Britain' i<BR>'Jo Hamya is an exceptionally gifted writer...slowly but surely broke my heart' CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT<BR>'Intelligent, melancholy, funny and subtle' CHRIS POWER<BR>'Both spectral and steeped in contemporary reality' OLIVIA SUDJIC<BR>'Resigned to renting forever and feeling guilty every time you buy a cup of coffee? You'll want to read Jo Hamya's urgent and intelligent debut' EVENING STANDARD

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