Mother London

Michael Moorcock follows three Londoners who met as psychiatric patients and who between them hold the city’s memory: the Blitz, the shelters, the postwar rebuilding, and the decades of decline and speculation that followed. The narrative moves freely across half a century rather than running in order, and the city itself is the protagonist. Widely held to be Moorcock’s finest novel, and the one furthest from the fantasy he is better known for.