Forest Gate

Peter Akinti

Original title: Forest gate

earliest edition we have, 1998 Jonathan Cape, 2009 paperback 192 pages

At once personal and authentic, a story of redemptive love set in the midst of London's urban decay. It's 2006 in Forest Gate, East London. Suicides are on the rise as defeated youths make irreversible decisions. In a community where poverty is kept close and passed from one generation to the next, two teenage boys, best friends Ashvin and James, stand on top of twin tower blocks. Facing each other across the abyss o...

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Editions we hold

Forest Gate edition · 2011 · Penguin Random House · 9780099526926
Forest gate edition · 2010 · Free Press · 210 pages · 9781439172179
Forest Gate ebook · 2009 · Random House Publishing Group · 9781409076070
Forest Gate paperback · 2009 · Jonathan Cape · 192 pages · 9780224087094
Forest Gate edition · 1998 · Penguin Random House · 9781409076087

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