Title: The housing lark
First published: 1965
Description: "Battersby, the hero of Selvon's fifth novel, is a West Indian exile in London who encounters both hardships and amusing situations in his search for adequate and reasonably priced shelter. In Housing Lark Selvon explores the plight of the West Indian in the "Mother Country," and the exiles' interactions with English women, the British in general, and each other"--Pub. website.
Subjects: Fiction, West indians, great britain, Poor, england, london
Places: Trinidad and Tobago