I never really enjoyed marking exams, but this is quite different, because it’s outside the box, the tick-box. It’s been a revelation and yet another reason to be cheerful in these grim and getting grimmer times. The teaching’s terrific. The writing’s exciting.
The voices are compelling – a rich mix of the demotic, purple, high and low, repressed and oppressed and the sometimes shocking. Voices of the often voiceless – often, Mr Farrago, enthralling, urgent immigrant voices. Secret and private voices, which tell stories of subterranean worlds and reflect the Other London. I’m reminded once again how vitally important English teachers can be, when they deal in this necessary magic.
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