Mother London

Mother London
Mother London  
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Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author(s) Michael Moorcock
Cover artist Peter Dyer
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Literary fiction
Publisher Secker & Warburg
Publication date 1988
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 496 pp
ISBN 0-436-28461-8
OCLC Number 17917718
Followed by King of the City

Mother London (1988) is a novel by Michael Moorcock. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. Although the city of London itself is perhaps the central character, it follows three outpatients from a mental hospital, a music hall artist, a reclusive writer and a woman just awoken from a long coma, who experience the history of the city from the blitz to the late eighties though chaotic experience and sensory delusions. The novel is a compilation of episodes, snippets and sidelines, rather than a single coherent narrative. A piece in The Guardian called it 'a great, humane document' [1].

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