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This is a story of prejudices; the intellectual, class, gender and race prejudices of 1981 are presented through the lives of young and old people in one town over one summer. It's the story of three week-ends in a fictional north of London commuter town during the summer of 1981. Against the back drop of unemployment and riots in Britain an unwilling young working class hero comes of age politically. Rob Clenton is part of the skinhead scene and halfheartedly assists a local National front thug, soon finding, though, that National Front politics don't suit him. Involved in local crime and heading for prison Rob becomes politicized by his personal experiences and comes to see that it isn't race, but class that's the problem in Thatcher's Britain.
The novel also follows the life of Rob's sister, Annette, and her struggle to overcome the prejudice people have for working class girls with academic ambitions; it follows the life of a pregnant rich girl and her working class boyfriend; it follows the life of a young Afro-Caribbean boy and his white girl friend; it follows the life of an academic Asian boy and his shop owner father; it follows the life of a factory owner and his philandering son; it follows lives of the rich and the poor, the Black, the White and the Asian, the religious and the evil. In this book the lives of all these people intertwine and interconnect in dramatic, tragic and sometimes funny events.
With strong language, violent scenes and challenging moments 'It Doesn't Make It Alright' is a gritty and stark reflection of Britain in 1981.
Inspired by the Ska music of the Two Tone label and specifically 'The Specials' this novel looks back and asks has British society changed at all in 30 years?
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