![]() ![]() I found it on a guesthouse bookshelf on holiday in Tanzania. Scary, determined, a craving for power at any cost: hardcore doesn’t do her justice. ![]() ![]() I never really understood Shakespeare at school – only later in life did I come to appreciate the kick-ass Lady Macbeth. All these men left school before the age of 16, but that in no way stopped them from understanding how to tell a cracking story. ![]() Not a book but, as a youngster, listening to my dad and his friends telling laugh-out-loud stories as they slammed down dominoes on a Friday evening – the voices they used to bring the characters alive. The book that made me want to be a writer I never really understood Shakespeare at school – only later in life did I come to appreciate the kick-ass Lady Macbeth She made me realise that someone with an accent like mine has a right to be heard just like anyone else in our society. The first writer I knew who had the brass to write stories about the struggles and experiences of women who lived on council estates. But, ultimately, a young, poor Black woman can be triumphant. I cried, I laughed, I shook my fist at the unfairness of life. ![]()
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