To anyone who moves about the city every day the characterisation is nonsense, an invention of political voices that feed on division. But there is, at the same time, a more private realm in which barriers between communities are being raised: that of storytelling.
If you follow the money, O'Hagan suggests, it inevitably leads from eye-watering mortgage to city fixer to money-laundering oligarch... The result is a book it's hard to resist the word Dickensian that feels as near an authentic slice of contemporary London life as any packed tube carriage.
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