Hot Stew
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    [synopsis] => FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST ELMET



"Stunningly clever . . . A deliciously spicy stew indeed." -Entertainment Weekly



 "A story about money and power, love and art, sex work and gentrification . . . Enjoyable and impressive on every page." -USA Today



 In the middle of the bustle of London's Soho, among the theaters and sex shops and pubs, there sits a building. It isn't particularly assuming, but its location is prime, and Agatha Howard, a millionaire with a fortune of mysterious provenance, has decided it's the perfect spot to put up luxury condos. First, though, she has to kick out all the tenants. And Precious and Tabitha, two of the women who live and work in a brothel housed in the building, are determined not to go quietly. A colorful assortment of other characters also find themselves caught up in the fate of this property: Robert, a one-time member of a far-right group and enforcer for Agatha's father; Bastian, a rich and dissatisfied party boy who pines for an ex-girlfriend; Jackie, a policewoman intent on making London a safer place for all women; and Cheryl, one of the many homeless people who occupy the basement. As their lives converge, surprising hidden connections are revealed, shadowy pasts are uncovered, and the fight over the property boils over into a hot stew.



 Entertaining, sharply funny, and dazzlingly accomplished, Hot Stew confronts questions about wealth and inheritance, gender and power, and the things women must do to survive in an unjust world. Fiona Mozley was born in East London and raised in York, in the North of England. She studied history at Cambridge and then lived in Buenos Aires and London, working at a literary agency and at a travel center. Her first novel, Elmet, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2017. She lives in Edinburgh with her partner and their dog. Mozley's second novel, Hot Stew, is available now. An Esquire Book Club Selection

 A BuzzFeed Book Club Selection



 "Stunningly clever . . . Mozley's vision of London, simultaneously ancient and deeply modern, is layered with mystery and packed with humanity."

-Mary Sollosi, Entertainment Weekly

  

 "Thrilling . . . [Hot Stew] is so precise and granular in its evocation of London that it made me thoroughly homesick while reading it. And Mozley is very good on the degree to which circumstance shapes interior life."

-Emma Brockes, The New York Times Book Review 



 "With masterful prose, through over a half-dozen point-of-view characters, [Mozley] tells a story about money and power, love and art, sex work and gentrification-and those are just some of the proteins in this complex stew . . . Mozley writes convincingly about class and gender dynamics . . . Enjoyable and impressive on every page. Mozley brings Soho to clanging life."

 -Steph Cha, USA Today

  

 "Mozely returns with her sophomore effort in Hot Stew, a sprawling, ambitious work of social realism about Londoners whose messy lives converge in the city's storied neighborhood of Soho."

-Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire



 "Hot Stew is expansive and ribald . . . It's ambitious, clever, brilliant and very funny. If Elmet announced the arrival of a bright new voice in British literature, Hot Stew confirms Mozley as a writer of extraordinary empathic gifts."

 -Alex Preston, The Observer (UK)



 "A dazzling Dickensian tale . . . [Mozley] has reinvigorated large-scale social realism for our times."

 -The Guardian (UK)

  

 "Fiona Mozley's hypnotic debut, Elmet, was a standout novel of 2018. Her much-anticipated follow-up takes place in London's Soho, where a young millionaire intent on converting an old building into luxury condos finds out the hard way that its tenants-specifically two sex workers whose brothel is based in the building-won't leave without a fight."

-BuzzFeed

  

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