LS6 (novel)

LS6 (or, including the subtitle of the Spanish edition, LS6: Narradores de nuestro tiempo) is the first novel by Mario Crespo, published in 2011 by Bohodón Ediciones.

[1] The novel was chosen as a Spanish representative at the Festival du Premier roman at Chambéry in 2012.

It comprises six sections, each named after and associated with a different Leeds postal district, and each narrating the day of a different character.

It turns out that in the evening, all attend a play at the West Yorkshire Playhouse entitled The Death of Margaret Thatcher, during which the West Yorkshire Playhouse blows up due to a gas leak.

In order, the sections and their protagonists are: The novel is explicitly set during the Great Recession which followed the Financial crisis of 2007–2008, with characters musing on these circumstances and on neoliberalism.