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Title: Potentially amusing but smothered in political correctness
Review: Any potential for humour from an "Islam meets The West cultural clash", played out in a school in suburban South London, is drowned in a sea of coy self-righteousness. Typical of so many liberal writers lookin at minority cultures, Nigel Williams falls into that familiar trap of displaying excess of sympathy but absence of empathy. The result is strangely unappealing, stilted and distant.The Independent on Sunday describes this book as "screamingly funny"; in truth, it's an untidy story that, I suppose, raises the odd chuckle. I can't comment on his other books, but they're supposed to be better than this.
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