Muswell Hill by Torben Betts

One night in January 2010 an earthquake in Haiti leave around a hundred thousand people dead and almost two million homeless.

Meanwhile, somewhere in a leafy north London suburb, six individuals convene over avocado and prawns, followed by a monkfish stew. They struggle with worries over their mortgages, their mobile phone tariffs, their Facebook friends, their careers, their love lives, their debts, their holiday plans, and whether or not any of them will be able to make a lasting impression on history.