Harriet Quayle
housing solicitor
Procedural; wins on paperwork
Small Print
The flat is shared with a lodger and, later, a friend on a joint tenancy. Bisi learns what tenancy law says, what it does not, and how much depends on paperwork she never read — while her neighbours start bringing her their letters too.
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Law & your rights Money under pressure Hard choices Competing advice City life Family home Tense Bracing
The premise
The flat is shared with a lodger and, later, a friend on a joint tenancy. Bisi learns what tenancy law says, what it does not, and how much depends on paperwork she never read — while her neighbours start bringing her their letters too.
The protagonist
Bisi Adeyemi-Clarke — Tenant of six years facing a withheld deposit and an eviction notice
The council
Every council member is an original fictional character. None represents, quotes or is endorsed by a real person.
Ambrose Kettering
mediator
Conciliatory; looks for the deal
Dev Rawlinson
former landlord
Pragmatic; explains the other side
Lou Marchetti-Owusu
tenants’-union organiser
Combative; believes in collective action
How the story moves
From the first letter to the court date; a small community forms around the dispute and outlasts it.
What readers take away
- Types of tenancy, including joint tenancies and lodgers
- Deposit-protection rules
- Repairs and landlord duties
- Valid and invalid notices
- The possession process
- Rent increases
- Harassment and unlawful eviction
- Routes for resolving disputes
- Use the council’s private-sector housing team
- Understand the hazard rating system for repairs
- Write a section 11 repairs letter
- Find free legal help and legal aid for housing
The books
- 1The notice Planned
- 2The deposit Planned
- 3Repairs Planned
- 4Court Planned
Book titles are working titles and may change before publication. No book is on sale until the complete series is finished, checked and released.