Book Review Insert Name: Institutional Affiliation: Due Date: Brick Lane by Monica Ali is a book that narrates the life story of Nazneen beginning when she was born in 1967 and then moving to year 2001. Nazneen was 34 years old when was a lover, mother and worker in London. The story is told exclusively from Nazneen’s life perspective. Everything is narrated in the third person, which is an indirect classic style narrative of the psychological novel.