It gets into your bones. You don't even realise it, until you're driving through it, watching all the things you've always known and leaving them behind.Young Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are leaving town in a fourth-hand Ford Cortina with a suitcase full of money. They are running from jealous boyfriends, dead-end jobs, violent maniacs and disgruntled drug dealers, in the hope of escaping the restless tedium of life in south-east London - the place they have always called home.As the stor...

Reissued in the Picador Collection, Hold Your Own is an incendiary reworking of the life of the mythical prophet Tiresias.