Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we love and reviews from our contributors. Universality by Natasha Brown urges you to remember the power that words hold.
What We Say: “A man is bludgeoned with a solid gold bar at an illegal hippie rave during Covid, and the attacker goes on the run. A young journalist solves the mystery by connecting the dots between a banker landlord, an anti-woke newspaper columnist and members of a fringe anarchist movement. What follows is a series of perspectives from those caught up in the crime who never miss an opportunity to pontificate about identity, class or even genetics. Brown has great fun sending up her cishet white characters and their great fear of wokery – but her message about the current state of British society and politics is deadly serious.” – Maria Padget
What They Say: “Original, vital, and unputdownable.” – Tess Gunty
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Maria Padget is Book Club Director at Service95
