| Mother London | |
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Dust-jacket from the first edition |
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| Author(s) | Michael Moorcock |
| Cover artist | Peter Dyer |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Literary fiction |
| Publisher | Secker & Warburg |
| Publication date | 1988 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 496 pp |
| ISBN | 0-436-28461-8 |
| OCLC Number | 17917718 |
| Followed by | King of the City |
Mother London (1988) is a novel by Michael Moorcock. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. Although the city of London itself is perhaps the central character, it follows three outpatients from a mental hospital, a music hall artist, a reclusive writer and a woman just awoken from a long coma, who experience the history of the city from the blitz to the late eighties though chaotic experience and sensory delusions. The novel is a compilation of episodes, snippets and sidelines, rather than a single coherent narrative. A piece in The Guardian called it 'a great, humane document' [1].