Salaam Brick Lane Hall Tarquin
Salaam Brick Lane Hall Tarquin After10 years living abroad, Tarquin Hall wanted to return to his native London. But, priced out of the housing market, they found themselves living not in a townhouse,…
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Salaam Brick Lane Hall Tarquin
After10 years living abroad, Tarquin Hall wanted to return to his native London. But, priced out of the housing market, they found themselves living not in a townhouse, oozing Victorian charm, but in a squalid attic above a Bangladeshi sweatshop on London's Brick Lane. Lured by his nostalgia for a leafy suburban childhood spent in south-west London, he returned with his Indian-born, American fiancee in tow.
Yet, as Hall got to know Brick Lane, he discovered beneath its unlovely surface an inner world where immigrants and asylum seekers struggle to better themselves and dream of escape. A grimy skylight provided the only window on their new worlda filthy, noisy street where drug dealers and prostitutes peddled their wares and tramps urinated on the pavements. "Salaam Brick Lane" is a journey of discovery by an outsider in his own native