Hmm. Of the 30-plus characters in this novel, not one is both black and British. Odd, since it’s set in 2007-8, in south London. An early passage shows us a Polish builder listening to a ‘crowd of black kids’ on the Northern Line:
‘You never—’
‘He never—’
‘Batty man—’
And that’s it: six words in 650 pages.
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