![]() ![]() ![]() “Why endure my own dehumanisation?”Īs the title suggests, the novel is concerned with ideas of construction, specifically the falsehoods the narrator has crafted as someone pressured to “assimilate”. Sick of this, she secretly decides not to treat her cancer. “Born here, parents born here, always lived here – still, never from here,” is how she sums up the way she is perceived. ![]() Kate Mosse: ‘The ageing population is presented as a problem – but it’s a sign public health has worked’īrown poignantly compares the way the narrator’s illness ravages her body with the emotional injuries inflicted by racism, where “a breezy brutality cuts you each day”.įrom being abused in the street to her colleagues suggesting her promotion is down to “diversity”, for our protagonist, Britain is a place of relentless hostility. ![]()
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