The Cross — Mandy Sayer

I looked out my window one morning and there she was, Gina Delgado, dressed up like a peacock in her high heels and all, standing between my front gate and a moving bulldozer, with her arms and legs apart in this sort of over my dead body pose, see?

An inner-city community is under threat from the developers and their crooked friends. One woman leads the battle against them, a battle fought in nightclubs and council chambers, in hotel rooms and high on rooftops.

Eleven characters reveal their memorable, interweaving lives and deaths in this passionate and controversial novel.