Robert Elms: London Made Us [2020] paperback CHAZ When Billy

When Billy

Her creativity and needlework skills quickly become invaluable and she settles in to life among the colourful troupe of actors

An irresistible love story

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Robert Elms: London Made Us [2020] paperback CHAZ When Billy'London is a giant kaleidoscope, which is forever turning. Take your eye off it for more than a moment and you're lost.' Robert Elms has seen his beloved city change beyond all imagining. London in his lifetime has morphed from a piratical, bomb scarred playground, to a swish cosmopolitan metropolis. Motorways driven through lost communities, accents changing, skyscrapers appearing. Yet still it remains to him the greatest place on earth. Elms takes