Crossing the Class Divide

In an era of #OwnVoices, Joanna Nadin asks how can a writer for young people, whose own class identity is blurred at best, articulate class authentically and usefully?

Abstract

In an era of #OwnVoices, how can a writer for young people, whose own class identity is blurred at best, articulate class authentically and usefully? Dr Joanna Nadin examines shifting class structure in the UK today, her own identity as a writer from a lower-middle-class background, and how a lifetime of straddling the divide between working-class and middle-class Essex has shaped her MG and YA fiction.