The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can’t deliver.
That’s one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope… But, as we got older and we saw how much women’s behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as.
Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what’s happened – almost to calm themselves.
But I can’t bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at – to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who’ve really met violence, who’ve been raped or bashed.
I think some people wished I’d kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I’m doing it completely intellectually.
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