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Review of Umi Sinha’s remarkable debut novel, ‘Belonging’. A novel which brings together multiple narratives to create an extraordinary portrait of the ways in which family history and identity are never far behind us.
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“My writing saved me” – Janet Frame In 1951, following a diagnosis of schizophrenia, Janet Frame was admitted to a mental hospital. In an era before the development of psychotherapeutic medication there were few treatments available for patients suffering from severe mental illness. One “cure” did exist, however: the transorbital lobotomy. To perform a transorbital
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One Saturday morning in 1988 two British Army corporals, David Howes and Derek Wood, accidentally drove their car into an IRA funeral procession. They were surrounded, pulled from their vehicle then stripped and taken to waste ground where they were shot. The incident, which became known as the ‘Corporal Killings’ was filmed by television crews
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It’s easy to leave home.To leave the place of your birth. To run from it, and start again. It’s easy to leave behind family, history, expectations, constraints, class, poverty, all those restrictions on your life laid out for you from the start. Far better to go. To start afresh in some place where they don’t
