In fact with all the bored housewives and rumors of a brothel higher up the building is a sexual playground for the recently divorced Laing and his upstairs neighbor Charlotte Melville might just well be his first conquest. It's a small vertical city that has everything Laing needs. The high-rise has a glut of conveniences, with a 10th floor concourse having a supermarket, bank, hair salon, as well as a swimming pool, and the 35th floor having fine dining, not to mention there's a school for the kids living in the high-rise. The architecture by Anthony Royal may be brutal, creating a concrete landscape, but for Doctor Robert Laing moving from Chelsea into his 25th floor studio apartment in the first completed building, three floors above his sister Alice, he feels like he's traveled forward in time. On the other side there will be five identical high-rises reaching forty stories into the sky. On one side of the lake is a new medical school and television studio. Two miles downriver from the City of London right on the Thames there's a new complex surrounding a small lake. Book Review - Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
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