I delayed writing this review, and now have little to say about a book I read enthusiastically. Every chapter is a biographical sketch of a different character, mostly women, mostly people of colour, living or arriving to Britain and crossing path, one way or the other. A possible flaw is that some chapters are almost too didactic and typified, the author almost visible behind the page, murmuring here's a trans folk, here the millennial, here the country woman, here the hardworking migrant. On the other hand, most characters are three dimensional, she's sympathetic, even when she points her finger to racism or careerism. And the reading is absorbing, "thick" like a XIX century novel (and I mean this in a positive way).