287 pages
English language
Published June 29, 1985 by Penguin.
City of spades
4 stars
(1 review)
London, 1957. Victoria Station is awash with boat trains discharging hopeful black immigrants into a cold and alien England. And when Montgomery Pew, an Assistant Welfare Officer in the Colonial Department, meets Johnny Fortune from Lagos, the meeting of minds and races takes a surprising turn.
Subjects
- City and town life
- Fiction
- Immigrants
Places
- Great Britain
- London (England)
- England
- London