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Product Description Sid Smith completes his acclaimed trilogy with this dazzling new novel For weeks they went all over London on the little red Honda, weaving up hills at walking speed, down alleys and pavements, through shopping precincts, warm in the late-summer nights . . . and he'd park outside pubs, proud of his China girl . . .For Tom it was a wonderful summer. Innocent, broke, and slightly awestruck on his arrival in London, he was working as a delivery boy at a Chinese takeaway. Then May, the daughter of the owner, became his love. But suddenly, inexplicably, Tom loses his home, his job, and his beloved. A squat, then a battered green van, become his refuge, his longing for May his one obsession. As Tom travels through the desperate sub cultures of low-life London, he is also caught up in his dreams about China, each more vivid and shocking than the last. China Dreams is dazzling, disturbing, lyrical, and occasionally fearsome'a stunning literary achievement. About the Author Sid Smith spent the first seven years of his working life in laboring jobs. Since then he has hitchhiked 9,000 miles around the US, acquired a pilot's licence for paragliders, and been married with full Shinto rites at a shrine in southern Japan. He is the author of A House By The River as well as Something Like A House, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.