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|title=The Streets

|sort=Streets, The

|publisher=Vintage

|date=June 2013

|summary=Set in the slums of London in the 1880s, this is a well researched historical novel with a stories of love and friendship but what is most shocking are the ideas about what was considered acceptable solutions to solving the problems of poverty. Interesting and powerful as well as a great read.

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Anthony Quinn's ''The Streets'' is set in London in the early 1880s in the area known as Somers Town, which to those not familiar with London geography is the area around Euston, St Pancras and King's Cross stations. Today, much of this falls under the trendy Camden area, but in the 1880s, was the site of some of the worst slum tenements in the capital. Some 50 years' earlier, Charles Dickens lived in this part of London and although he had died by the time this is set, the depiction of the poverty is not far from what we would term Dickensian. The book is narrated by David Wildeblood, who is a principled but naive young man who finds employment as an 'investigator' for the charismatic Mr Marchmont's ''The Labouring Classes of London'' - a strange mix of social geography and journalism publishing regular stories of the poor who reside in the slums of London.