Book of the Week: The Clothes On Their Backs
The Clothes on Their Backs, just longlisted for the Booker, starts with the transforming power of a dress and ends with a jacket, a skirt and a pair of shoes. To say it's about clothes, however, would be a bit like saying that King Lear is about the monarchy. As a journalist, Linda Grant is well known for her love for fashion and fashion certainly features in this novel: the dapper suits of a spiv-cum-showman, the impeccable outfits of his glamorous shopgirl girlfriend, the punk/vintage ensembles of a 70s teenager and the tight jeans, leather jackets and shaved heads of a burgeoning National Front.
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