Fiona Mozleyâs Hot Stew and three other fiction titles
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Author of the Booker-shortlisted
Elmet, Fiona Mozley devotes her second novel to the changing face of a red-light district. Set in and around a Soho brothel,
Hot Stew sees a community of sex workers squaring off against the low running dogs of capitalism. The brothelâs existence is threatened by Agatha Howard â a cartoonish property developer seeking to expel the riffraff in Sohoâs alleyways so gentrification can proceed apace. Arrayed against her are Precious and Tabitha. Both have served at the brothel (run on enlightened principles, with a fierce sense of solidarity among those who ply their trade). They organise a protest that attracts widespread media attention. Mozley gives us a lively, Dickensian portrayal of the Soho demi-monde, including the lowlife ad
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Hot Stew, Secrets of Happiness, and the delight of Dickensian character webs: Review Mary Sollosi
Hot Stew, by Fiona Mozley
An old building in the middle of London s Soho becomes an obsession in this stunningly clever sophomore novel from Fiona Mozley (
Elmet). A wealthy businesswoman hopes to flip the property, which houses a brothel whose workers resist her efforts; the fight for the fated building also draws in a Dickensian company of drunks, dreamers, lawyers, and vagrants, their paths tangled by history. Mozley s vision of London, simultaneously ancient and deeply modern, is layered with mystery (pieces of which are perhaps too neatly solved) and packed with humanity a deliciously spicy stew indeed.
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