''Small World'' is a novel by
Matt Beaumont, published in 2008. It tells the story of a group of people living in
North London.
Characters
*Kate Lister - Kate is a high-powered businesswoman who never spends too much money but is too focussed on her career to worry too much about her family. That is, until she is fired.
*Marco Lister - Marco is Kate's quiet husband He becomes embroiled in a murder case after stalking Ali.
*Christie - Christie is the Listers' Australian
au pair who is anything but happy in England.
*Ali Heath - Ali is a tough woman who cannot conceive and so has undergone
IVF for the past five years to try to get pregnant. She owns the shop Heaven.
*Paul Heath - Paul is Ali's journalist husband. He is very put-upon by Ali and is eventually killed in a hit and run.
*Keith - Keith is a self-loathing policeman with a very bad temper who does some horrible things, including
raping
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his girlfriend before leaving her and killing a man during a
hit and run
In traffic laws, a hit and run or a hit-and-run is the act of causing a traffic collision and not stopping afterwards. It is considered a supplemental crime in most jurisdictions.
Additional obligation
In many jurisdictions, there may be an ...
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*Siobhan Gethen - Siobhan is the best friend of Ali and slightly newer friend of Kate. She has four children.
*Dom Gethen - Dom is Siobhan's minor celebrity husband. He is a
stand-up comic who has appeared on many TV panel shows. He thinks Marco looks like a
serial killer
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* with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them. While most authorities set a threshold of three ...
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*Pam - Pam is Keith's curvy girlfriend who wants confirmation that the relationship is moving forwards.
*Janet Graham - Janet is a middle-aged woman who has come from
Yorkshire
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to visit her ill husband in London.
*Michele - Michele is a
mixed-race girl in her late teens who seems to have a shady past but has put it (mostly) behind her to work with Ali in Heaven.
*Steve - Steve is an alcoholic tramp who wanders North London causing havoc.
*Rob - Rob is Keith's sex-mad colleague.
*Jenka - Jenka is a Czech au pair who is saving up to get a
nose job
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*Carlton - Carlton is a black teenager. He is very tall with long hair and is always being arrested by the police for things he hasn't done.
*Marcia - Marcia is Carlton's mother and a nurse at a
NHS hospital
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. She is religious and worries a lot about her son.
*Jaz - Jaz is a waiter in his father's Indian restaurant who dreams of becoming a stand-up comic.
*362 - "362" is a Nigerian
traffic warden who crops up a couple of times in the story and is beaten up at one point.
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2008 novels
Novels set in London