The Wednesday Club

<p><strong>The Wednesday Club</strong> is set in Brixton South London and follows four Windrush-generation elders - Claudette a retired NHS matron; Winston a retired jazz musician; Millicent a retired schoolteacher and community archivist; and Errol a retired master tailor - who meet every Wednesday morning at Gloria's café on Coldharbour Lane.</p><p>When their friend Desmond Featherstone the beloved local barber is found dead in his flat the official verdict is natural causes. But the group notices something the authorities won't: a solicitor's notice appears in Desmond's shop window within hours of his death before anyone outside the street knew he was gone. A property developer has been circling the block for months.</p><p>What begins as quiet suspicion becomes a careful methodical investigation. Working through community networks archival research medical expertise and patient observation the four friends piece together a decades-long scheme of dispossession targeting elderly Windrush homeowners - one that reaches from a South London developer all the way to a former Whitehall civil servant named Alderton.</p><p>Bittersweet in its resolution - justice is partial not complete - the novel is ultimately a celebration of people who survived with their dignity and humour intact and who refuse even in their seventies to accept what the paperwork says.</p>