A review by jillysnz
The Clothes On Their Backs by Linda Grant

4.0

"My parents thought this island, this Britain, was an oasis of tolerance and fair play, but across the Channel a howling wilderness of big ideas could inflate into an ideology, and once a man had an ideology, he was always on the lookout for enemies. When you are the enemy of a person with an ideology, you're in serious trouble. But I knew different, from the evenings handing out the leaflets. I knew that quite ordinary people, who had no thoughts at all, just feelings, could be equally dangerous. "