Second class citizen - Buchi Emecheta

In the late 1960's, Adah, a spirited and resourceful woman manages to move her family to London.

Seeking an independent life for herself and her children she encounters racism and hard truths about being a new citizen.

Second Class Citizen pales a lot of academic feminist writing into insignificance.

- The Guardian Emecheta's prose has a shimmer of originality, of English being reinvented.

Issues of survival lie inherent in her material and give her tales weight.

--John Updike.