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Print: $16.75 In a ‘bog standard’ London comprehensive, a young English teacher is teaching Great Expectations and Howards End to two very different classes. As the tensions between her and her pupils grow, the drink can no longer fog the strain on her relationships, and violent confrontation seems inescapable.
Set among the echoes of the 2005 London bombings, Nothing is the story of one woman’s struggle to grieve, of an education system in crisis, and of a city still trying to come to terms with the material emptiness and cultural fissures that the bombs exposed.
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