Author: Apps, Peter London, Greater LondonPublished on 10 November 2022 by Oneworld Publications in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 352 pages129 x 198 x 34 | 312g ***WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023***Never before, in years of reviewing books about buildings, has one brought me to tears. This one did. Rowan Moore, Observer Book of the WeekOn 14 June 2017, a 24-storey block of flats went up in flames.The fire climbed up cladding as flammable as solid petrol. Fire doors failed to self-close. No alarm rang out to warn sleeping residents. As smoke seeped into their homes, all were told to ‘stay put’. Many did – and they died.It was a tragedy decades in the making.Peter Apps exposes how a steady stream of deregulation, corporate greed and institutional indifference caused a tragedy. This is the story of a grieving community forsaken by our government, a community still waiting for justice.
