Author Polly Toynbee will be in conversation with biographer Anne Chisholm about her latest book An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals. The event takes place on Wednesday 6th September at Hatchards, 6.30pm.
“Social class is a great national obsession and it lies at the heart of every family story …”
Prominent social commentator Polly Toynbee uses the prism of her own remarkable family to explore the vexed issue of class mobility in Britain. While for generations her ancestors have been committed left-wing rabble-rousers railing against injustice, they could never claim to be working class, opting instead for lives in academia or journalism.
By examining her family of radicals – including her writer father Philip, historian grandfather Arnold, cousins the Glenconnors, Jessica Mitford and philosopher Bertrand Russell – she explores the myth of mobility, the guilt of privilege, and entertains us thoroughly along the way.
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