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2000s: What does it take to lead a meaningful life?
Expectation
What you need to know before your trail
Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry – and the promise of everything to come. They are electric. They are the best of friends.
Ten years on, they are not where they hoped to be. Amidst flailing careers and faltering marriages, each hungers for what the others have. And each wrestles with the same question: what does it take to lead a meaningful life?
Locations
Reset- England - London
- A: London Fields
- B: Broadway Market
- C: The British Library
- D: Hackney Wick
- E: Dalston
Travel Guide
Wander around London with Expectation
The city of London is a lovely backdrop to this novel. It’s a city the girls have lived in for years and so it’s a cityof memories: where they used to go dancing, their favourite market, park etc. There’s a real sense of a city where they have enjoyed life and now have many shared memories.
The book is set in and around Hackney Wick and London Fields, but there’s a lovely little tour incorporated into the book when one of the characters explains where they like to go:
“They go to the city farm on Hackney Road with hangovers and they eat fried breakfasts….”
“Sometimes on Sundays they walk: out along the Regent’s Canal to Victoria Park, and beyond to the old Greenway to Three Mills Island, savouring the sideways slice of London that the canal offers up.”
They are interested int eh history of the East End and visit Cable Street where the socialists saw off Oswald Mosely’s Blackshirts. The main history of this novel however is the one shared between three friends and the main place they visit, is their past……
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Expectation
Author/Guide: Anna Hope Destination: London Departure Time: 2004,
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