“Second-Class Citizen is both a sequel and the prequel to In The Ditch. It is the fictionalised autobiography of my mother’s early life up until the early 1970s when she became an established writer. She was only 27 when she wrote it, and as with her first novel, she framed the work around her experience as a Black, single mother on welfare, raising five young children in North London council estate.Second-Class Citizen could arguably be read as embedded ethnography. Though colourfully fictional

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