Wigan Pier Revisited

A brilliant exposé of poverty and politics in Britain. In 1937 George Orwell published The Road to Wigan Pier , an account of his famous 'urban ride' among the people and places of the Great Depression. Fifty years later we lived through a second Great Depression, and this time the journey north was made by a woman - like Orwell a journalist and a socialist, but, unlike him, working class and a feminist. Wigan Pier Revisited is a devastating record of what Beatrix Campbell saw and heard in towns