Where can you peer inside Richard Burton's tent? Whatever happened to Bedlam? Where can you praise God, buy meatballs, and have a sauna? What's in the House of Dreams? Where can you find monsters in Trafalgar Square? What's growing quietly under your feet? To which secret society does Prince Charles belong? What's the trick to instant weight loss?
Rachel Howard's debut novel, The Risk of Us, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt April 2019. She is also the author of a memoir, The Lost Night, and her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in ZYZZYVA, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Gulf Coast, the New Yorker online, and the New York Times. She lives in Nevada City, California.
Had a few London trips planned this year and this book is great for slightly more obscure places to see or visit between the usual trip to tourist highlights. As a born London Guy I love this book and I’ve learned so much history about the city I love