Peerless Flats

By Esther Freud

Book Overview

Sixteen-year-old Lisa has high hopes of imitating her older sister Ruby during her first years in London. Ruby's shady past and rockabilly boyfriend indicate to Lisa a life lived to the fullest. But as her family's prospects start to look bleak, Lisa must reinvent herself as the only sane and sensible member of her family. Spare, elegant, and often funny, Peerless Flats is an unblinking and moving portrait of a pained adolescence in 1970s London.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880015926
• ISBN13: 9780880015929
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: PerfectBound
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

She is a great writer

this book in particular is amazing its, setting was true to the time and city, a really wonderful book and in great condition. i give it five stars!

A cool book about a young girl and basic teenage stresses!

A cool book that gives you a valuable insight as to how a teenage mind works and has great characters like her sister Ruby and the cool Quentin!! It's so good I'm doing my RPR on it!

Amazing story and writing

I could not put this book down. The story is so grisly and yet told without any sentimentality or self-pity. The writing is excellent. I ended the book full of admiration for the writer who came off as brave and very, very smart. A real artist. A beautiful and sometimes shocking book.

A teengirl in the London Punkscene coping with all problems.

About a girl of my age who is actually doing alot of things which u would say she's too young for. She's got a sister who's an drugaddict and al- most dies of it. A younger brother which she must take care of a bit, but not always doing it. It's in the London streets in the Punktime, and very kewl to read!