- Reviews -
As someone who zips around England - and the wider UK every week - this book really resonates with me. Wonderfully written with colourful and incisive accounts of contemporary England --
Chris Mason, Presenter ofBBC Radio 4' s Any Questions?
A beautiful piece of storytelling - the British eyed from unexpected places, from China to the middle of the middle of the middle. The question will never go away but these answers help us a lot --
Andrew Marr National identity is at the heart of Who Are We Now? Stories of Modern England . . . It is told through a series of stories, merging the personal and the political - stories of conflict and division but also ultimately of hope. --
Tom Gatti * New Statesman ' What to read this year: non-fiction' * A lyrical blend of the personal and the political, with echoes of Orwell, this book uncovers the hidden story of a fragmented nation. --
Helen Lewis, journalist, broadcaster and author of Difficult Women Jason Cowley' s well-researched reports and excellent analysis of modern England lead to two inexorable conclusions. "We" - the people of England - are certainly not who we once were; and "we" are far from agreeing who we mean when we talk of "us. " Fascinating, disturbing and brilliantly insightful, especially on towns like Harlow in Essex which are not so much left behind, as overlooked and ignored. --
Gavin Esler, author of How Britain Ends Jason Cowley' s humane and sharply observed book aims to piece together what the Victorians called "the condition of England question", through meditations on Blair' s Britain through to Brexit, from civil war in Syria to Covid-19. Who Are We Now? is blessed by curiosity and emphathy for the many overlapping stories from Margate to Morecambe and beyond. The traps of the metropole are avoided and the result is a work of unobtrusive and softly spoken patriotism, written to stand the test of time --
John Bew, author of the Orwell Prize-winning Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee Cowley offers a haunting ' condition of England' masterpiece, the multiple Englands of his intimate stories elusive, at the mercy of forces far beyond any individual' s hopes, somehow enduring. This is a beautifully written meditation of the recent English past and what understanding the plurality of Englishness demands of the English. --
Helen Thompson, co-host of the Talking Politics podcast Behind every electoral statistic, every social and political change is an evocative human story. With his characteristic clarity and flair Jason Cowley pulls out such particularly poignant, and redolent of the spirit of our times, stories. In doing so, he adds a crucial and often overlooked layer to our narratives of modern Britain and the historical tides of the last few decades. The lives of real people jump from these pages to form a rich tapestry, from the extremely dramatic to the most mundane, to shed light on what divides and what unites us, and what makes us the society we are today. --
Maria Sobolewska, co-author of Brexitland: Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics. A trenchant, but also moving, personal analysis of why England has become so divided, which finds hope for the future in the compassion for others that characterized the pandemic. --
Caroline Sanderson * Bookseller Ones to Watch * Engaging . . . This is an important and readable book - a rare combination. --
Neill Denny * BookBrunch *
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