Diamond Street is Rachel Lichtenstein''s fascinating account of London''s Hatton Garden.
Enter Hatton Garden, one of London''s most mysterious streets. Home to ancient burial sites, diamond workshops, underground vaults, monastic dynasties, subterranean rivers and forgotten palaces. Here you''ll meet sewer flushers, artists, goldsmiths, geologists and visionaries as Rachel Lichtenstein uncovers the history, secrets and stories that bring this vibrant Clerkenwell street and its environs to life.
Praise for Diamond Street:
''Diamond Street is a brilliant and moving book, intricate in its form and fabulous in its curiosity. It is poised somewhere between deep history, archaeological dig, archive-quest and contemporary documentary, and it is suffused throughout with Rachel Lichtenstein''s fascination with people and place -- a fascination which approaches a moral quality, really, in its tenderness, diligence and cultural openness'' Robert M
