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When We Were Rich

By: Tim Lott
Narrated by: Jamie Parker
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Critic reviews

‘A sharp and very funny portrait of a brash era which is also a surprisingly tender take on flawed masculinity’

(Sarah Hughes, i paper)
‘What a terrific novel – wickedly sharp, wildly entertaining – I was gripped from start to finish. With its twisty plots and interwoven characters it paints a vivid portrait of a crucial decade. It's laugh-out-loud funny, too. And with property porn thrown in, what's not to like’ (Deborah Moggach)
‘Wickedly funny and deeply humane. I loved this book’ (Sadie Jones)
‘Tim Lott revisits the years between millennium fever and the financial crisis, and brings this already long-lost era back to life in a novel every bit as evocative and compelling as we would expect from this prodigiously gifted author’ (Jonathan Coe)
‘Lott delivers many hilarious and sad scenes of life in a long-term relationship. He also explores the poignancy and fragility of male friendships, in a manner reminiscent of Graham Swift’s Last Orders. . . [He is,] crucially, careful to linger over moral difficulty and vulnerability rather than evading it’
‘Lott’s carefully observed period piece captures the mood of an era that now seems like a lost world’
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This is a good novel charting the era and good character development allowing the reader to feel interested and not hopeless about human frailty but finish believing it’s ok to get it wrong

Couldn’t stand book 1 but enjoyed this

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Shocked at the 2005 terrorist evil , still very enjoyable and reflective of living in the White City area myself within both books

So much reflective of the London times then

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