Sex in the City--London, Volume Three by Maxim Jakubowski

Author:Maxim Jakubowski
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Xcite Books
Published: 2011-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

About the Story

ALTHOUGH I WAS BORN in London, my parents moved to France when I was still very small. I was regularly shipped back to London during school breaks, to stay with my aunt in Bayswater, but my appreciation of London was long limited to much-awaited visits to Hamley’s on Regent Street and Saturday morning movie shows and I never truly came to know my own city until I finally returned in my mid-twenties.

I now live a few miles from where I was born and, despite a few years in Italy and the temptation of New York, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. London is not just a city, it’s a hundred different places, each with its own personality, shopping centres, parks, character, geography. It’s also so wonderfully diverse and easy to live in (I’ll make an exception for the transport system) and, when it comes to culture in all its shapes and sizes, offers a veritable and inexhaustible cornucopia of offerings you would never tire of, but then we don’t have the extremes of temperature so many other places suffer from. But nowhere is perfect.

There is a joke, perpetuated by Time Out’s occasional North/South issues with different covers, that you are either from North London or South London, and never the twain shall meet. The joke has some grounding in reality and there is an element of truth in the fact that Londoners are very ‘regional’ and make only rare forays into neighbouring zones, let alone across the river (I’ll make an exception as a Northern denizen for the South Bank arts complex and the Jubilee Walk from the London Eye all the way to the Globe Theatre, but then being by the Thames, it’s barely in the South, is it?). Which is the genesis of this story. Yes, I do live close to Hampstead, long ago the jewel in the Bohemian crown of London, and now all too residential, expensive and fashionable, and also for ages the heart of the middle-class English novel. So the idea of a love story circumscribed by invisible London frontiers came to mind. The rest is, of course, strictly the product of my imagination.

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