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Lowborn by Kerry Hudson
Damning indictment of a society that is marginalising the working-class poor
Proud of her class: Kerry Hudson
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
by Liz Jones
IF KERRY HUDSON portrays working-class life with such sensitivity, humour and warmth, it is because she knows it well.
Describing herself as “proudly working class” but “never proudly poor,” her fiction is set among the poor and the marginalised, the class she was born into.
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