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Hot Stew, Secrets of Happiness, and the delight of Dickensian character webs: Review Mary Sollosi
Hot Stew, by Fiona Mozley
An old building in the middle of London s Soho becomes an obsession in this stunningly clever sophomore novel from Fiona Mozley (
Elmet). A wealthy businesswoman hopes to flip the property, which houses a brothel whose workers resist her efforts; the fight for the fated building also draws in a Dickensian company of drunks, dreamers, lawyers, and vagrants, their paths tangled by history. Mozley s vision of London, simultaneously ancient and deeply modern, is layered with mystery (pieces of which are perhaps too neatly solved) and packed with humanity a deliciously spicy stew indeed.