Book description
Harryboy is lowlife, scum. But if he leaves the track after the thirteenth race quids in, everyone will say, there goes Harryboy Boas, King of the Track. Trouble starts for Harryboy when the Deaners move into his Hackney boarding house. Quicker than he can place a bet on a dog,…
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The Lowlife takes up to a grimy depicition of mid-century London where we are transported to the underbelly of dog racing, and the gamblers that are addicted to the thrill of winning everything, and then losing it on the next race.
Harryboy immediately strikes us as a complex narrator navigating his own self-deprecating helplessness with his vice, and his quest for redemption in the eyes of his neighbours.
It is an exciting book that compells you to read it as fast as you can, like you’ve just uncovered the best tip on the track and have to rush to get…
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