The Tenants

di Iris Crowther (Autore)

Ravinder Kumar, 2026

A flat on a northern mill street has stood a hundred years, and it has kept them all. Number eleven, Brunswick Street. Top floor, a fair pull up three flights: two small rooms with a brown stain spreading across the ceiling in the shape of a country no one can name. Over a century the same space takes in one life after another, and not one of them ever meets the next. A war widow who spent thirty years alone with the memory of her husband's feet on the stairs, and who buries what she loved under a loose board before she hands back the key. Two girls in the summer the mills close, dancing slow to a fast song with the curtains shut, carving two swifts into the underside of the windowsill where only a happy person, lying on the floor, would ever find them. An old cotton-comber whose lungs have gone to paper. A refugee family who pencil their children's heights on the door frame. A night nurse far from home. A furloughed lad in the year the world stopped. They leave their traces and go down the stairs for the last time: two names scratched into the larder door, ADA & TOM, 1939; a pencil line climbing the frame; the stain no amount of magnolia will ever drown. Then, one cold morning, with the developers already wrapping the yard in hoardings, a stranger comes to clear the flat for good, and the building gives up what it has been keeping. Told in seven distinct voices, this is a hundred years of a working city pressed into two rented rooms: the mill and the canal, the war and the boarded-up shop, the incomers and the outgoers, the red geranium on the sill and the sycamore nobody planted. It is a novel about the marks we leave and the ones we carry out with us: love that had to hide, grief that had nowhere to go, and the odd, steady company of a place that holds on to everyone who was ever brave inside it. Slow, tender, and true to the small dignities of ordinary lives. Perfect for readers who love Elizabeth Strout, linked-story novels, and quiet fiction about home, memory, and the people who came before us. It will settle in you and stay, long after the door is pulled to.

• Autore: Iris Crowther
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Ravinder Kumar
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798235489875