BRENT, England – The neighborhood as dusk sets is quiet. In the daytime, young people sprawl across the region, hanging about. There is a sense of newness in this particular neighborhood that has ceased to exist elsewhere in London.
The neighborhood of Brent is a microcosm of northwest London. Few out-of-towners really visit this part of London. To break just such a cycle, Brent was ventured to.
The neighborhood comprises largely of brick houses. Lights show folks are home, but it remains quiet almost everywhere. A Mosque is on the corner where Brent meets Brent. The door is ajar, and women are hard at work doling food onto plates. Their expressions in the dimmed lighting are graced with a lightness.
This picture was taken near Camden Line.
London Boy can’t help but ring out, courtesy of Taylor Swift’s newest album. It catches the jauntiness of a local as he strolls up the hill, the farmer’s market sleepy but open clashing with twilight as it comes into early morning, morning light.
Brent Book Recommendations:
The Enchanted April, by Elizabeth von Arnim, 1922
Ladies from Hampstead tread through the social niceties to have a vacation of their own. Though much of the time is spent in Italy, the time in Hampstead and its construct permeates through the rest of the story.
The Autograph Man, by Zadie Smith, 2002
The novel takes on new meaning when one has been to London, and the lay of the land is akin to this urban setting of the “commoner.”
Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf, 1925
Ditto. Set in London, it is one of Virginia Woolf’s finest about the life of the upper class in such a locale.
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