A Lovely Way to Burn

"Soho was full of pubs and all of them were full. Drinkers had spilled out on to the pavements and it seemed that everywhere there were pretty girls and men in suits, minus ties, all of them talking and laughing and all with a glass in their hands."

From the opening of Louise Welsh's new novel, A Lovely Way to Burn, which I've been recording in Soho as a Book at Bedtime for BBC Radio 4. 20 degree heat, 100% pollution, everyone spilling onto the streets...