article_snippet.sent: (Serpent’s Tail £14.99)
article_snippet.sent: Reading this book reminds me how times have changed dramatically since my generation left school or college in the Sixties with no worries about finding a job.
article_snippet.sent: A book which aims to give the reader much-needed insight into other people's lives (and A book which aims to give the reader much-needed insight into other people's lives ( certainly does that) seems to me to be spoilt by degenerating into a student newspaper leader: 'A citizen's income set at the right level - £320 a week is the current estimate - would kill off the sort of unproductive and low-paid jobs that have proliferated since 2008 in the UK.'
article_snippet.sent: At that point the author does not speculate what disastrous effects such indiscriminate largesse could have on the economy, with inevitable repercussions for the very men and women she has met.