Sounds dry I know, but Dorling conjures a portrait of a cross section of London. At each stop there is the textual equivalent of a photograph of someone who lives nearby. A surgeon out to lunch with a younger female colleague. An old woman in a home thinking she would just like a change of company every now and then. A homeless woman who used to beg outside St Paul's Cathedral. These images are compelling and so the work is never boring. I'm not entirely sure weather or not the stories are true. I can't figure out how they could be but its implied that they are.
All in all its a good read, really nice length and I think does what the series set out to do, it is a celebration of London and the tube but doesn't romanticise it, a collection of engaging and well written information. Thanks so much for the proof Penguin!
Just cracked the spine of Simon Armitage's Walking Home. Im looking forward to this one, I like Armitage (seen him presenting a few things) but never read much of his work. This one looks interesting. He is walking the Pennine Way 'backwards', ending up in his hometown of Marsden, which is very near where my Mum, Dad and Grandparents are from.
