From the author of Estates- An Intimate History, a powerful, highly personal take on social mobility in Britain.
Lynsey Hanley was born in Birmingham and lives in Liverpool. She is the author of Estates: An Intimate History, and she is a regular contributor to the Guardian and the New Statesman.
Ambitious, impressive... There is fury contained within the pages
and between the lines of Respectable... an intelligent and
important book that deserves to be widely read
*Guardian*
Hanley vividly describes the "risky, lonely journey" she undertook
from one class to another... She is tremendous at detailing her
personal transition
*Mail on Sunday*
Why is class still so central to the experience of living in
Britain? It is an urgent question, evaded through a kind of
collective shame, but Lynsey Hanley approaches it with wit and
passion. Respectable is pithy and provoking, spiced with the
personal but solidly grounded in a lifetime's experience of
analysing the world around her. It is one of those valuable books
that enables the reader to re-think her past and re-experience her
own life.
*Hilary Mantel*
Honest, brave and moving, Respectable opens up the emotional
experience of navigating across class boundaries in an unequal
world.
*Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level*
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