Sam North chronicles the lives of the hidden residents of London. The city has brought them together. The city could tear them apart.

The streets of London are swirling with them. They have no jobs, no driving licence, no social security, no identity of any sort. They pass us by every day; the unnumbered. Nio the dreamer has built a home for himself in Coldfall Woods. Mila the realist has just bought herself an identity, and works as a checkout girl. Together, Nio and Mila will take on this London and all it can throw at them. But the city is exacting.

Longlisted
The Man Booker Prize 2004
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Scribner
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Sam North

Sam North

About the Author

Sam North knows books from many angles - as a novelist, as a writer about how to write, as a scriptwriter, and as a literary agent specialising in television documentaries and dramas.
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