A review by shellystilger
Heads You Lose by Christianna Brand

2.0

This book was first published in 1941, and it bugs me that the Goodreads listing, as well as the audiobook information lists only the re-release date of 1988. Either way, it hasn’t aged all that well. Much more frank about sexuality than many contemporary novels, it is also much more explicitly antisemitic, classist and racist, and that’s a drag. It’s true that the less sympathetic characters are the ones expressing the grossest antisemitism, so maybe that’s something to consider.