The TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s endlessly talked-about novel promises a modern take on romance, and lots of sex, but its heartbreaking tale of love divided by class is only too real, most of us have lived it, says Annie Lord
published in 2012 showed that among people born between 1976 and 1981 a majority of 56 per cent married into the same class, while a meagre 16 percent married “up”. It’s something many of us will have experienced in our own lives. We walk around the world bumping into friends-of-friends-of-friends exclaiming: “It’s such a small world!”, while turning up at pubs in the areas everyone from our school, university or work goes to.
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