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It may be quiet in the suburbs, but it’s far from peaceful . . .

Oak Drive can be found nestled tidily in an unassuming English town. Its uniform frontgardens overlook a midsized common and magnificent oak tree, which the street’s
residents survey with quiet, some might say smug, pride.

This is the sort of place where it pays to sweat the small stuff. Bins should be placed back
in their right positions in a timely fashion, noise kept to a minimum past 9 pm, and
paintwork should share the same tasteful but muted palette.

Sometimes, however, big problems come a calling – and all hell can break loose in sleepy
suburbia.

Common Decency chronicles the lives and interactions of the street’s residents as they
band together to save a beloved oak tree from destruction at the hands of ruthless
developers. As tensions rise and repressed neuroses and resentments seep out, the
secrets of Oak Drive threaten to shatter the well-ordered veneer, revealing some rather
more surprising truths. . .

Tom Allen brings his trademark dark comedy to the page in this brilliant novel
about what it truly means to be a neighbourhood…