“Caledonian Road” Andrew O’Hagan (2024) Review | Dark reality of London today

Caledonian Road
Andrew O’Hagan, 2024
UK
657 pages
Read in 2025.11
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✔ Today’s London for rich people
✔ Power struggle and corruptions
✔ Crimes


🔽 Review summary 🔽

★★★★☆ People come with hope for a better life, and soon enough realise there is no such thing. London is a place for rich to rule. The money, the power, the evil. And what is the shared feeling? the loneliness.


🔽 Book review and notes 🔽

If anyone asks what today’s London is like, I’d say read this book.
It has all the problems the city is experiencing in the last few years.

People come with hope for a better life, and soon enough realise there is no such thing.
London is a place for rich to rule, it’s something we ordinary people have difficulty seeing, but it’s always in the background.
The money, the power, the evil.
And what is the shared feeling? the loneliness.

This sense of “us” vs “them”.
We the people, they the evil things.

An exciting book that contains a lot of aspects of today, traditional rich, Russian rich, rich kids, rich kids who are Eco warriors, young gangs, illegal immigration, the class struggles – it depicts different points of view from different class and communities.

Lastly it was nice to read a story about Islington where I lived for more than 10 years, it’s a big borough with all the essences of London.

🔽 Where to buy / Summary and more info 🔽

●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●

Caledonian Road: The Sunday Times bestseller

●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
Caledonian Road: The Sunday Times bestseller

●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
Caledonian Road (English)