Brick Lane
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Sod authenticity
The writer Monica Ali said in a recent interview that the critical reaction to her 2011 novel Untold Story tipped her into ten years of depression. Critics apparently thought she had strayed too far from the subject matter that made her name and that gave her writing voice ‘authenticity’. Continue reading
About Me

Writer. Londoner. Wayfarer on the rolling English road.
the other place

I write about British places and history at theseislands.blog.