The Bricks that Built the Houses

The debut novel from "dynamic" "wunderkind" Kate Tempest proves her talent to be boundless and unstoppable.*

Becky, Harry, and Leon are leaving London in a fourth-hand Ford with a suitcase full of stolen money, in a mess of tangled loyalties and impulses. But can they truly leave the city that's in their bones?

Kate Tempest's novel reaches back through time—through tensely quiet dining rooms and crassly loud clubs—to the first time Becky and Harry meet. It sprawls through their lives and thos...