Kit de Waal with Damian Barr at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

The publishing world is finally waking up to the barriers that
have prevented working class voices from being heard in books.
Kit de Waal grew up in Birmingham’s Irish community and she has
successfully broken into the mainstream with two highly acclaimed
novels. In this event recorded live at the 2019 Edinburgh
International Book Festival she talks to Damian Barr about Common
People, her book of essays by working class writers, featuring
coruscating pieces by authors including Barr himself.