I think if there's a lack of observation of the humanness of inhabitation of urban spaces in the gentrification project, then we're going to move more and more towards this London. That is more to do with a tourist idea of what London is but not actually a place where Londoners feel like Londoners anymore. Well, let's move on to your next object now. So this is a very broken and faded CD of John Legend's first album Get Lifted. And this album features quite heavily in the novel. Of course, the song ordinary people is one of the main songs that we know from this album and actually came to be the title of the novel.

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