Keeping the House - Tice Cin

A future cult classic, and even better, it’s set in Tottenham. A delve into the Turkish community, the heroin trade and young people growing up in London.

Tice Cin has a rare talent of being able to weave multiple languages with complex written forms and yet it still remain a fast paced, addictive read. There is something about the beautiful, steady handling of language, often slipping untethered through the text, that makes the subject matter even more poignant by contrast.

Offering a fresh and funny take on the machinery of the North London heroin trade, Keeping the House lifts the lid on a covert world thriving just beneath notice: not only in McDonald's queues and men's clubs, but in spotless living rooms and whispering kitchens. Spanning three generations, this is the story of the women who keep their family - and their family business - afloat, juggling everything from police surveillance to trickier questions of community, belonging and love.