Little prisons /
Bannister, Ilona.
Little prisons / Ilona Bannister. - London : Two Roads, 2022. - 384 pages ; 23 cm.
In a building in a gentrifying corner of London, Penny is doing daily battle with her mind. She is convinced that the world beyond her door is too dangerous for her, though her heart knows it isn't. Penny's neighbour, Carla, an American expat and single mother, has lived in a coercive relationship for many years, too worn down by her controlling husband to escape her situation. Mable, Penny's upstairs neighbour, an elderly Jamaican pensioner and devout Jehovah's Witness, has sacrificed everything for her faith, including her relationship with her family. And Woman, the housekeeper on the second floor, has been trafficked. When she is not cleaning and cooking, she works in the laundrette the landlord owns on the ground floor, a hidden slave in full view of the public. Through grocery deliveries, glimpses through windows, and conversations in the stairwell, the women come to know each other.
9781529353907 (hbk.) : 16.99 1529353904 (hbk.) : 16.99
Americans--England--London--Fiction.
General.
General Fiction.
Fiction & related items.
Modern & contemporary fiction.
Fiction companions.
PS3602.A668
Little prisons / Ilona Bannister. - London : Two Roads, 2022. - 384 pages ; 23 cm.
In a building in a gentrifying corner of London, Penny is doing daily battle with her mind. She is convinced that the world beyond her door is too dangerous for her, though her heart knows it isn't. Penny's neighbour, Carla, an American expat and single mother, has lived in a coercive relationship for many years, too worn down by her controlling husband to escape her situation. Mable, Penny's upstairs neighbour, an elderly Jamaican pensioner and devout Jehovah's Witness, has sacrificed everything for her faith, including her relationship with her family. And Woman, the housekeeper on the second floor, has been trafficked. When she is not cleaning and cooking, she works in the laundrette the landlord owns on the ground floor, a hidden slave in full view of the public. Through grocery deliveries, glimpses through windows, and conversations in the stairwell, the women come to know each other.
9781529353907 (hbk.) : 16.99 1529353904 (hbk.) : 16.99
Americans--England--London--Fiction.
General.
General Fiction.
Fiction & related items.
Modern & contemporary fiction.
Fiction companions.
PS3602.A668