Novel delicately portrays the journey of a migrant caught between dreams of success and the harsh realities of life in post-war England
John Sayles: ‘For the last 25 years it’s been hard for me to get screenwriting work, much less actually get a movie made’The beauty of the novel lies in that delicacy, in the way it tries to spare these displaced people the humiliation of having to admit to their own failures. The author Caryl Phillips’s concern, as ever, is migration, but the themes are universal – about loneliness, and the self-deception required to carry on through life, despite an increasing accumulation of disappointments.
Should one go back and make amends for past wrongs, Ruth thinks, or just keep ploughing on? It’s a question that briefly comes into focus, before being swept away by the day-to-day demands of living. Claire Adam is the author of Golden Child, winner of the Desmond Elliot Prize 2019, and Love Forms Another Man in the Street by Caryl Phillips: Migration, loneliness and broken dreams
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