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Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the bricks that built the houses. A t 30, kate tempest is less than seven years younger than me and yet the distance between us feels like decades. What the bricks that built the houses fails, at times, to give us is the measure of its authors keen lingual instinct, the charisma and dynamism of. Originally published in good reading magazine, april 2016. The bricks that built the houses kate tempest, house. May 10, 2016 awardwinning poet and rapper kate tempests electrifying debut novel takes us into the beating heart of london in this multigenerational tale of drugs, desire, and belonging.
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