{"product_id":"music-night-at-the-apollo-9781408835371","title":"Music Night at the Apollo","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat you've got to understand is that here in Southall, everyone's up to something.\u003c\/i\u003eIn 2006, Lilian Pizzichini swaps life on dry land for a narrowboat on the Paddington arm of the Grand Union Canal. The \u003ci\u003eAdam Bonny\u003c\/i\u003e, moored between Newlocks and Shackleton Estates, is to be the place she can learn more about her extensive working-class London family  and the place where she will become pulled into a strange underbelly of drugs, vagrant neighbours and criminals.Lilian always found it easier to observe than join in. Abandoned by everyone around her, by the time she was fourteen she had developed a taste for Pernod and black. Speed allowed her to talk to boys, but she spent most of her time with her great-aunt Dolly, who had no regard for convention, sang songs and urinated on the street. Born into the slums of Lisson Grove, Dolly spoke like Eliza Doolittle when no-one was listening. With her, Lilian felt the bonds of mischief, gambling, madness and song.As the sad lives of her \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWildly original and imaginative and disturbing, it remains in one's consciousness like a very vivid dream. The evocation of place is brilliant and also of sensation * \u003cb\u003eFrancis Wyndham\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eDead Men's Wages\u003c\/i\u003e:   This memoir is as good as a novel * \u003cb\u003eThe Times\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eIn telling the story of her criminal grandfather ... Pizzichini paints a dark-hued portrait of London, the scabbed, peeling city that shaped his anti-social tendencies * \u003cb\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Hour\u003c\/i\u003e: A wonderful book: exciting and dramatic as narrative, perceptive and original as literary criticism * \u003cb\u003eFrancis Wyndham\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eThis engrossing account of Jean Rhys's painful life is as near as we are likely to get to how Jean saw it herself * \u003cb\u003eDiana Melly\u003c\/b\u003e *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408007995735,"sku":"9781408835371","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781408835371.jpg?v=1730501252","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/music-night-at-the-apollo-9781408835371","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}