In a dehumanized and cruel London, paradigm of an England and a Europe where only the law of money governs and where years of crisis have wreaked havoc, destroying the future of millions of people, four young people - forcibly four anti-heroes - try to find their place, impose on chaos. When the right does not lead anywhere but to sink more and more into the sink of an unjust and class system, opening the way in life may involve choosing paths that are neither the most traveled nor the most pleasant. Sell ​​drugs in order to save and set up a local neighborhood spirit, give erotic massage to pay for the dance lessons that give meaning to your existence ... The characters in this novel refuse to accept the place that life and society has given them and they fight their wars with the weapons they have known or been able to procure in a world where dreams and idealism are very low.

Considered one of the most relevant hip-hop artists of today, and author of award-winning books of poetry and plays, Kate Tempest gives us her first novel, When life gives you a hammer, a powerful work aimed at become an emblematic book of contemporary London and of a whole lost generation, victim of the effects of a crisis turned into a paradigm. With an electric, urban, lyrical writing, and showing an unusual empathy (for its depth and sincerity), Tempest tells us the vicissitudes of fragile but proud characters, stranded between frustrated desires, characters in which the helplessness is projected and the disorientation of so many young people.