The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it’s all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good. — Andrew O’Hagan

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Mini who’s who:

Andrew O’Hagan : Scottish Novelist
Born: 1968