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Lynsey Hanley

Lynsey Hanley

Writer and journalist

Lynsey Hanley is the author of two books – Estates: an Intimate History (Granta 2007) and Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide (Penguin 2016) – and writes regularly for The Guardian, the Observer, the Financial Times and others. She also makes programmes for BBC Radio, her most recent being Archive on 4: The Art of Habit.