'A furious encapsulation of Generation Rent.' OLIVIA LAING NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR
2021'Cool sharp and perceptive.' StylistWhat is the true cost of living as a young person in
21st-century England?It's autumn 2018 and a young woman moves into a rented room in university
accommodation ready to begin a job as a research assistant at Oxford. Here living and working
in the spaces that have birthed the country's leaders she is both outsider and insider and
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. Summer rolls on and England roils with questions around its
domestic civil rights: Brexit Grenfell climate change homelessness. Meanwhile tensions with
her flatmate escalate she is overworked and underpaid and the prospects of a permanent job
seem increasingly unlikely until finally she has to ask herself: what is this all for?Incisive
original and brilliantly observed Three Rooms is the story of a search for a home and for a
self. Driven by despair and optimism in equal measure the novel poignantly explores politics
race and belonging.'From the first paragraph I was hooked... There's quiet raw power in this
book and its author.' COURTTIA NEWLAND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021'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
