About the Book: Capital
From the bestselling author of Whoops! and The Debt to Pleasure comes a
post-financial crisis, state-of-the-nation novel told with compassion, humour
and unflinching truth. Featuring a contemporary cast of characters that crosses
race, class and religion, Capital is the moving and hugely topical story of one
street caught on the brink of the crash. Capital: the City of London. Capital:
money, currency, finance. Both are central to the multicultural micro-society
living and working on Pepys Road-an ordinary street in the Capital. Formerly
working class, the simple houses have seen a wave of gentrification and
expensive renovations that have rendered them highly desirable, valuable real
estate.