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?

Publisher Review

The greatest writer of post-Tolkien British fantasy A supreme example of the fantasy genre and more - TIME OUT Scenes of beauty and power, and serious ruminations on humankind's capacity for great dreams and profound horrors - LOCUS a great, humane document - London Review of Books