The Lonely Londoners an unforgettable account of immigrant experience and one of the great
twentieth-century London novels now in in a stunning Clothbound Classics edition. At Waterloo
Station hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train ready to start
afresh in 1950s London. There homesick Moses Aloetta who has already lived in the city for
years meets Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver and shows him the ropes. In this strange cold and
foggy city where the natives can be less than friendly at the sight of a black face has
Galahad met his Waterloo? But the irrepressible newcomer cannot be cast down. He and all the
other lonely new Londoners - from shiftless Cap to Tolroy whose family has descended on him
from Jamaica - must try to create a new life for themselves. As pessimistic 'old veteran' Moses
watches their attempts they gradually learn to survive and come to love the heady excitements
of London.
