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LONDON CALLING InOurMadandFuriousCitytakes place over 48 hours in a North London estateDescribed by Waterstones as an authenticaccount of a less visible but fully livedLondonOur story follows a group of young men and their parents withelsewhere in their bloodwho live in and around the council estate in Neasden Theres Yusuf who is doing his best to avoid the attention of local Muslim extremists Ardan the aspiring rapper with a troublesome home life and Selvon an obsessively disciplined athlete desperate to escape the neighbourhood We have Caroline one of the older protagonists who fled Northern Ireland during the Troubles and Selvon a mute and wheelchair bound man part of the Windrush generationWritten by BritishSriLankanauthorGuy Gunaratne we could not pick this book being Londoners ourselves