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Sergeant, Harriet

Harriet Sergeant is a journalist, author and Research Fellow of the Centre for Policy Studies. She regularly contributes to TV and radio, and has written three books, the most recent of which is Among the Hoods: My Years with a Teenage Gang, published in 2012 by Faber.

www.harrietsergeant.com

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20040601152632 David Eccles illustration - Harriet Sergeant on The Assassin’s Cloak - Slightly Foxed Issue 2

An Odd Source of Comfort

Harriet Sergeant on Alan & Irene Taylor (eds.), The Assassin’s Cloak

Books that have a profound effect on your life are usually books that you read young, but I only recently discovered The Assassin’s Cloak: An Anthology of the World’s Greatest Diarists. Nevertheless its impact has been startling. It caught me at that moment in middle age when you realize that the only thing ahead is death, but there it sits on my bedside table to provide comfort, exhilaration and much amusement.
20070301161603 Mary Kuper, The stubborn stranger - Harriet Sergeant on Oswald Wynd, The Ginger Tree - Slightly Foxed Issue 13

Bitter Fruit

Harriet Sergeant on Oswald Wynd, The Ginger Tree

I was given The Ginger Tree, by Oswald Wynd, to read before the birth of my first child. ‘It will take your mind off things,’ said my friend. Indeed it did. Through all the dramas of a premature birth, the book stayed in my hands. The life of a young girl at the turn of the twentieth century in China and Japan provided an escape and a refuge. It still does. In times of crisis or just a bout of ’flu, I return to The Ginger Tree. It has the power that all the best books have, the power to create its own reality. I step into it and am enveloped.

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