- Paperback: 309 pages
- Publisher: Corgi (April 7 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0552547395
- ISBN-13: 978-0552547390
- Product Dimensions: 13 x 1.4 x 19.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #810,265 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Meet Ellie, Jas, Della, Will and Billy. They’re tough. They’re street-smart. They’re the Crew and they live in what they call the Ghetto -- the housing around the city centre where everyone is broke and it’s important to stick together. No one bothers you when you’re part of a gang except, sometimes the older gangs, who can be dangerous.
About the Author
Bali Rai is a new author to RHCB. Having grown up in the heart of Leicester's Sikh community, he went to London to study politics. He has since returned to his home town and currently manages a city centre bar. (UN)ARRANGED MARRIAGE is his debut novel.
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The Crew, May 16 2008
By Sarah Sammis "Avid BookCrosser" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Crew (Paperback)
The Crew is a mystery set in rough neighborhood in London among a gang of teenagers. The story is told from the point of view of Billy, the leader and Ellie, the youngest member.
Billy and his crew look after themselves because the local police don't seem willing to their part even when there is a missing bag of money, a pair of kidnappings and other related crimes. Billy isn't perfect; he's done his fair share of petty crimes but he's trying to do the right thing in this book.
Unlike (Un)Arranged Marriage, the parents and adults in this novel have good relationships with their children. This isn't a book about the power struggle between adults and teens and the way tradition can be used as a disguise for abuse. Instead, this is a social commentary on life in the inner city.
The city here is London so many of the cultural references are specific to that city but on a broader sense, the book is about the hardships and frustrations of living in any city center. Billy describes the poverty, the drugs, the apathetic (and sometimes corrupt) police force, prostitution and gangs. Billy running commentary often includes the why behind a character's actions which makes The Crew less of a collection of cliches and more of a living breathing microcosm.
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