Author: Kapsali, Daphne
Number Of Pages: 450
Release Date: 11-11-2016
Details: Product Description Growing up in Athens, to a soundtrack of British rock and pop songs, Helen had always dreamed of living in London. Now that she's finally there, armed with the knowledge and certificates that deem her prepared, she's ready to find her place in the city that she loves and embrace everything it has to offer, free of preconceptions that would hold her back. Or so she thinks, until she finds herself trapped inside a song - her Designation: Common People. Set in the late 90s, in a reality only ever so slightly removed from our own, Common People is a novel about identity and belonging, and about how the place where we started from isn’t always the place that we call home. It’s about prejudice and preconceptions and stereotypes and how they shape us and our understanding of the world; it’s about racism and xenophobia, the fear of the other that both unites and divides us, the extremes we go to, sometimes, to protect our identities even as we ostensibly strive for diversity and integration. It’s about British society, and every society that’s ever been challenged by immigration. None of this is new; none of this is old. These are themes running through our history, always: often quietly as undercurrents, until something causes them to burst forth, explode into our lives, forcing us to renegotiate them once again. About the Author Daphne Kapsali is a writer, reluctant yogi, and pathological optimist - among many other things. In 2014, she gave up her life in London to spend the autumn and winter writing on a remote Greek island; the result, a book entitled "100 days of solitude" – 100 separate and interconnected stories on claiming the time and space to live as your true self and do what you love – was published in March 2015 and has become an unexpected bestseller. She has since published another five books, all of which are available from Amazon. Daphne is a big fan of the law of attraction, the universe and all things positive, and hopes her story will keep inspiring others to overcome their fears and limiting beliefs, and live their best lives.
EAN: 9781449560171
Languages: English
Binding: paperback
Item Condition: UsedLikeNew