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Nov 09, 2016 by carmina masoliver kate tempest is well known for her work within the world of poetry and music, yet her latest venture sees her trying her hand at prose, using her original modern mythologies weaved into a different form. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide. Rarely has a debut novelist emerged with a curriculum vitae as diverse and admirable as kate tempests. The opening sequence of kate tempests debut novel the bricks that built the houses reads like rentons updated choose life soliloquy from trainspotting 2, observing modernday life where people are killing for gods again. What the bricks that built the houses fails, at times, to give us is the measure of its authors keen lingual instinct, the charisma and dynamism of tempest on a stage, freestyling, reciting, versifying.