The Scent of Dried Roses
A son's elegy for his family and for the English suburbs that shaped them.
Tim Lott’s memoir of his family and of the suburbs of west London where he grew up. Written after his mother’s death, it follows three generations and the rise and fall of a way of English working and lower middle class life. It won the PEN/Ackerley Prize.
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