Common People by Kit de Waal

Author:Kit de Waal [Waal, Kit de]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783527465
Publisher: Unbound
Published: 2019-03-02T05:00:00+00:00

Employment took me back to the places I still considered my true home. I worked my way around central London, first in Harrods, where everybody was from elsewhere and, refreshingly, I was considered the local. Often I temped in offices, my favourites being the ones located on or off the Charing Cross Road, because of the bookshops. Glass-fronted giants like Borders and Foyles were appealing because they contained coffee shops (and sometimes piano players), but it was in rummaging through the second-hand bookshops, still with full-on Dickensian awnings and frontages, the jumble-sale racks of well-read random titles, that I began selecting the fiction that appealed to my own palate. Those old and obvious curriculum classics gave way for fresh autonomy over my reading choices. My re-education began with a tatty three-book bundle of Toni Morrison novels, for a fiver. The words warmed again, slowly disarming me of the resentments I still clutched furiously and sparked the recognition that my frustrations were nothing new. My story and experiences were far from unique; for someone like me, they were typical. Later, back in Chelmsford and financially broken, it was the library instead of the bookshops that returned as my educator. And my sanctuary. A place to hide within, keep warm and make a coffee last a century.

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