Something about your generation I've noticed she said not unkindly once I had fallen silent
is that you give up very easily. Autumn 2018. A young woman starts a job as a research
assistant at Oxford. But she can't shake the feeling that real life is happening elsewhere.
Eight months later she finds herself in London. She's landed a temp contract at a society
magazine and is paying £80 a week to sleep on a stranger's sofa. As the summer rolls on
tensions with her flatmate escalate. She is overworked and underpaid spends her free time
calculating the increasing austerity in England through the rising cost of Freddos. The
prospects of a permanent job seem increasingly unlikely until she finally asks herself: is it
time to give up? **A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR **________________________________ PRAISE
FOR THREE ROOMS 'I was bowled over by this barbed supple book...spiky unsettling.' OLIVIA
LAING 'Cool sharp and perceptive' Stylist 'Crisp and resonant' New Statesman 'A phenomenal
achievement' The Times 'One of the most candid and subtle explorations of class by an English
novelist in recent years' TLS 'A biting dissection of privilege race inequality and ideology
in 21st century Britain' i 'Jo Hamya is an exceptionally gifted writer...slowly but surely
broke my heart' CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT 'Intelligent melancholy funny and subtle' CHRIS
POWER'Both spectral and steeped in contemporary reality' OLIVIA SUDJIC 'Resigned to renting
forever and feeling guilty every time you buy a cup of coffee? You'll want to read Jo Hamya's
urgent and intelligent debut' EVENING STANDARD
