Londoners

Taylor put years into compiling this engaging, often amusing, and extraordinarily revealing oral account of the city of London during the last decade. He interviews street people and city planners, retired household cavalrymen, and successful vegetable merchants. The characters are diverse--literally from all over the world--yet all are united in their fast-talking London cynicism and half-hidden London pride. A small troop of narrators does an outstanding job of delivering the city's myriad accents without ever being hard to understand. A great listen for anyone who has ever lived in London, thought of living in London, or wondered why otherwise sane people do live in London. F.C. (c) AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine