![]() ![]() ![]() She is even invited to share her success story with eager young women at a school assembly. Within a 100 neat pages, this non-linear, stream-of-consciousness narrative follows a young black woman who has invested everything in transcending her race, class and gender to attain a high-paid position in a cut-throat bank. Natasha Brown’s debut novel is a small but blistering take on the British elite and its poisonous relationship with immigration, work and sexual politics. She developed 'Assembly' after receiving a 2019 London Writers Award in the literary fiction category and lives in London. Natasha Brown has worked in the financial services for the last ten years and studied Maths at Cambridge University. And it is about one woman daring to take control of her own story, even at the cost of her life. 'Assembly' is a story about the stories we live within - those of race and class, safety and freedom, winners and losers. ![]() As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can't escape the question: is it time to take it all apart? ![]() At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend's family estate, set deep in the English countryside. The narrator of 'Assembly' is a Black British woman. Go to Oxbridge, get an education, start a career. ![]()
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