A copywriter, Lynette Clarke has carved a career working with words. The Rat Cage is her third book but first fictional novel. When she is not writing, she lectures at universities in Australia and Singapore.
It’s London in the summer of 1984, a time of big hair, bold clothes and an ever-present sense of foreboding, just scratching beneath the surface. Here there is high unemployment and a housing shortage compounded by the counties’ jobless, striking miners and tourists all converging on the capital...