Natasha Brown's "The Universalists," a virulent portrait of a torn Britain
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An assault on a remote farmhouse forms the starting point for this gritty novel. Nick Hannes / PANOS/REA
After Assemblage , Natasha Brown has written a second novel with an equally incisive look at British society, its media and its political currents.
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I subscribeWhat happened on this isolated Yorkshire farm one evening in September 2020? During a rave, illegal during the pandemic, a man was hit over the head with a gold bar. A bar weighing over 12 kilos, worth at least half a million dollars. Hannah, a journalist, investigates and gradually uncovers the truth. Jake, the attacker who fled, spent the lockdown on this farm. He had invited an activist nicknamed Pegasus, the instigator of a movement called the Universalists, with the agenda of " progress for all ." Pegasus is now in the hospital with a head injury.
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