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RUTH HUNT is unambiguous. “Poverty will never be history unless we address disability.”
That’s one of the big issues she tackles in The Single Feather, a debut novel recently praised in the Morning Star for giving “a voice to those who have either been ignored or treated as mere victims.” It’s clear that for her the political is more acute when it is also personal.
She speaks very much from experience as a person living with disabilities since an accident at the age of 18 and her first published work has been galvanised both by her own experiences and by Establishment vilification of all people with disabilities.
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