The Dice Was Loaded from the Start - Hardcover

Annand, David

 
9781472155870: The Dice Was Loaded from the Start
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1472155874 ISBN 13: 9781472155870
Verlag: Corsair, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

For decades Pemberton Place in North London has been a Boomer stronghold. But one summer's day eight Millennials move into an empty house with political mischief in mind. Trapped on this new frontline of the housing crisis, the street's sole Gen Xer must pick a side.

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David Annand has worked as an editor at Condé Nast Traveller and GQ. He has written for the FT, TLS, Telegraph, Literary Review, the New Statesman and Time Out. His first novel, Peterdown, won the McKitterick Prize in 2022. He currently lives in Spain.

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When Gen X-er Max moves to Pemberton Place he finds what he expected: a leafy North London idyll almost exclusively populated by cultured comfortable Baby Boomers. But when eight politically minded Millennials move to the street, he finds himself on the frontline of an integenerational war.

Which way will the dice roll?

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It is the summer of 2018. Max Anderson, in his early forties, has been living in Berlin for the past decade failing to become the one-to-watch filmmaker he was once tipped to be. But his wife's career is taking off, and with a generous relocation package on offer they've moved with their kids back to London. Not to the Hackney flatshare that he left ten years ago but, somewhat bemusingly, to a rented home on a handsome tree-lined street in north London.

Pemberton Place is populated by couples who have lived there since the seventies, who bought their houses for a song, raised their families, and now sit on a relative fortune. The Boomers, as Max thinks of them, are cultured and urbane, full of shared stories and storied pasts, and immediately take Max under their wing. Both flattered and amused, Max joins most evenings as they gather to drink wine and reminisce on glories past. Max is both insider and outsider, participant and observer: a position in which he feels disconcertingly comfortable.

Then eight politically mischievous Millennials move in to an empty house on the street and upend this cosy equilibrium. With the Boomers in their crosshairs they make Pemberton Place a cause célèbre, the front line in the generational battle of the haves and have nots. As the Millennials steadily up the ante and the Boomers try to assert their authority, Max - the street's sole Gen-X'er - realises that everyone, eventually, has to pick a side.

With wit and a propulsive pace, David Annand spins the battleground of the housing crisis into a brilliantly crafted study in intergenerational difference. The Dice Was Loaded from the Start asks: what does the good life look like? And how might we make meaning in an exhausted world?

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Verlag
Corsair
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1472155874
ISBN 13 
9781472155870
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
256
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Corsair
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