Kit de Waal: 'Make room for working class writers' Books Kit de Waal: 'Make room for working class writers' When Kit de Waal was growing up in 1970s Birmingham, no one like her – poor, black and Irish – wrote books. ¶None of the big publishers were interested in Paul McVeigh’s 2015 novel The Good Son, about a working- class Catholic boy in Belfast during the Troubles. Similarly, working-class writers, it seems, must endlessly regurgitate their own life stories – or versions of them – whereas middle-class writers can explore the world, the universe and beyond. She has now formed a collective to support other working-class writers like herself. Shove all those other books up a bit and make room on the shelf for stories from all of the communities that make up the working class.

Source: The Guardian February 10, 2018 07:52 UTC