Just Like You

by Nick Hornby

He still wanted his community to be the place where he lived, a community which contained old white women, young Muslim men, Lithuanian kids, mixed-race girls, Asian parents,

It was April, so the referendum was still weeks away. He was probably going to vote to leave, like his dad, but he couldn’t see that it would make much difference to his life one way or the other. There’d still be meat, leisure centres, kids, football.

You were wrong

He thinks that if we leave the E.U. he’s going to be earning a lot more.’

Haha that worked out so well

conversation was not something imposed from above, like an examination. It was more like a sofa that worked out the shape of your arse and adjusted accordingly,