- Published: 1 March 2017
- ISBN: 9780141040615
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $24.99
Respectable
- Published: 1 March 2017
- ISBN: 9780141040615
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $24.99
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
Colin Grant, Guardian
Hanley vividly describes the "risky, lonely journey" she undertook from one class to another... She is tremendous at detailing her personal transition
Craig Brown, 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