Almost everyone has a neighbour. Neighbours can enrich or ruin our lives. They fascinate & worry us in equal measure. Soap operas watched by millions play with every lurid permutation of relationships in fictional neighbourhoods. Disputes over gigantic Leylandii & noise nuisance turn nasty & fill newspaper columns. These stories have a rich history
- as long as we have lived in shelters we have had neighbours. Emily Cockayne traces the story of the British neighbour through nine centuries
- spanning Medieval Tudor & Victorian periods two world wars & up to today's modern virtual world. Cheek by Jowl" is social history at its most colourful & compelling & puts the people back in the houses & the houses back on the streets."