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The Housing Lark
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- Length
- 4 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics; 2021
- Catalogue Number
- 18117
- Synopsis
Sitting in his cramped basement room in Brixton, Battersby dreams of money, women, a T-bone steak - and a place to call his own. So he and a group of friends decide to save up and buy a house together. But amid grasping landlords, the temptations of spending money and the less-than-welcoming attitude of the Mother Country, can this motley group of hustlers and schemers, Trinidadians and Jamaicans, men and women make their dreams a reality?