Book 32 - The Housing Lark by Sam Selvon

Reading date - October 2020

I read the Lonely Londoners a few years ago and I loved it.  I am the product of refugees and my understanding of the world is based always from that perspective.  Sam Selvon writes books about the Windrush generation and he writes it so well that I manage to find myself sharing their joys and their pains.  His works always makes me think how I would cope if I had to leave everything I knew and had to start life in a new country..and how hard it would be, and that is with me being able to speak English.  Imagine how hard it must be to do this in a country where you don't know anyone, you don't speak the language and the natives don't like you just because your skin is a different colour.

This book is a bit more cheerful than the Lonely Londoners, it is about a group of friends who are fed up of renting and decide to pool together to buy their own place.

I loved it, it describes them as normal people, trying to get money, trying to save and have a life at the same time.