A fast-moving modern fairytale, Effra: A Novel brings together a sly present-day squatter, a young man lost in London – and something bigger and nastier than both of them – all unified by loss and a hunger for greater things. Their story plays out above the lost rivers of London, buried waterways that have loaned their names to the city’s streets. Rivers such as the Fleet, the Wandle, and the titular Effra map the currents of the narrative, drawing the characters into a deeper discovery of old and new London. Effra: a love story is about losing what you wanted most, and finding more than you imagined.