![]() ![]() ![]() The reaction from the audience was so strong – there were a lot of tears, and I know writers are emotional animals but this level was new even to me – I knew I had to finish it. And so, in a state of mainly anger, I wrote the first few pages of what would become this book, and read them aloud at a summer workshop where I taught at Bath Spa. Words can and have changed the world, I reasoned. Unable, now I no longer worked in politics, to do anything about the state of society.īut I did have some little power. But then came Brexit, and Donald Trump, and I had a terrible sense of where the world might be heading – far, far to the right. This world, right now, I insisted, was difficult and interesting enough. ![]() I’d aways sworn I would never write about a dystopia. Smiling like a friend, like it was Batman come to save us when really it was the joker all along.’ Creeping up on us, into our town, down our street, into our house. ![]()
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