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Kensington Heights
Kensington Heights
Nov 12, 2025 8:01 PM

Author:Leslie Thomas

Kensington Heights

Frank Inigo Savage simply wants to be alone and the top flat of Kensington Heights seems just the place. Until the other bizarre and eccentric inhabitants of the building start arriving on his doorstep.

And the Savage gets a visit from a homeless waif he meets in the local launderette called Korky.

Korky's intrusion on Savage's private world alters his whole existence. High above the London rooftops this strange and contradictory relationship blooms like an improbable flower and Savage begins to realise that the world can creep under even the most firmly closed doors.

'As ever in a Thomas novel, we constantly shift from tears to laughter and back again' Daily Express

' A moving and jolly book ... with hardly a dull moment and difficult not to be cheered by' Times

Reviews

The most brilliant mystery writer of our time

—— Patricia Cornwell

Probably the greatest living crime writer in the world

—— Ian Rankin

Through the quality of her writing she's raised the game of the crime novel in this country

—— Peter James

Like all first-class comedians, he is deadly serious

—— Terry Eagleton , Stand

In his major postwar novels, the pain and earnestness of the individual’s quest for ‘meaning and design’ can be felt more intensely than perhaps anywhere else in contemporary Western prose

—— Sunday Times

An antipodean King Lear writ gentle and tragicomic, almost Chekhovian . . . an intensely dramatic masterpiece.

—— The Australian
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