WINNER OF THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020 `A superb piece of writing about London life. Past Wingate winners include Zadie Smith, Amos Oz and David Grossman''
''[A] shimmering new novel . . . Grant''s book is as much a love letter to London as a lament, an ode to pink skin after sunny days and lost gloves waving from railings'' The Economist
''A compelling portrait of contemporary London, it''s a novel fit for shifting, uncertain times'' Suzi Feay, Financial Times
''A Stranger City feels like a very important novel for right now: no politically ponderous diatribe but a witty, sunlounger-accessible and deeply humanising story about people - about us - and the societal shipwreck we''re stuck in'' Evening Standard
When a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS Belfast, it begins a search for a missing woman and confirms a sense that in London a person can become invisible o
