The Weeping Women Hotel
- ISBN-10
- 0340831227
- ISBN-13
- 9780340831229
- Category
- Gentrification
- Pages
- 257
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-04-20
- Author
- Alexei Sayle
Description
Northern girl Harriet lives and works on a London estate which is a battleground between the white working class plus the immigrants versus the newly arrived middle class focaccia-eaters. Unhappy and overweight, she hires a personal trainer who lures her into joining the martial arts class he runs. There she learns the regime of the completely phoney martial arts master and embarks on a spiritual and literal journey which leads her to a hotel opposite the railway station at Crewe, the Weeping Women Hotel. This is Alexei Sayle's best work to date good plot, great characters plus his trademark anarchic black humour.
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