Review: British Bankers with bite
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 10, 2014
This is a novel about couples slowing and settling in London's suburbia and yet fighting the urge to settle and slow in suburbia. It’s about friendships and marriages and about trying for children.But there's a twist in Rompersuit’s tail - this is also a novel about gang warfare on a nonsensical scale. Packs of sharp-suited bankers fighting rival bankers on the streets of the City of London. This is a world of lager, sex, pubs, drugs and fighting - a world that is violent and pitiless yet uplifting, joyous, funny and earnest at the same time. This is a novel about real people and their struggle to make a living and their challenges to make something of themselves but all the time snatching every ounce of happiness out of life no matter what happens to them.Jarvis writes with breath-taking ferocity - his words are entertaining, funny, discerning and observant. His characters are finely drawn, precise portraits of people existing in modern urban life and his dialogue is always right on the mark. Brutal and unique.