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Victoria has embarrassed us all

13 November 2021

9:00 AM

13 November 2021

9:00 AM

A significant part of my career as a writer of non-fiction has been—at editorial request—explicating my two nationalities to each other, and then both to Americans. On no issue have entreaties been more frequent than with Brexit and Covid-19.

Covering the former was obvious and necessary, and not just because Brexit was one of the major news stories of the last five years.

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Helen Dale won the Miles Franklin Award for her first novel, The Hand that Signed the Paper, and read law at Oxford. Her latest novel is Kingdom of the Wicked, which was shortlisted for science fiction’s Prometheus Prize. She lives in London.

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