In the last year of the twentieth century the
celebrated foreign correspondent Fergal Keane
set out for the BBC on a journey through
Britain. After years covering the world s conflict
zones, Keane - the child of Irish parents living
temporarily in London - turned his attention
to the country in which he was born but where,
until recently, he had never lived. From
Glasgow to Leeds, London, Cornwall, Wales
and to the very fringes of the United Kingdom
in County Tyrone, he discovered a world of
poverty, exclusion and alienation.
At times angry and always passionate, this is
Fergal Keane at his very best. It is a work of
compelling story-telling, as the author hears
the small voices lost in the bigger picture: listen
to Fiona, the young heroin addict who sold her
body and stole to support her habit; meet the
Protestants and Catholics living side by side on
this country s westernmost border; hear the
story of the tenant farmers in the Welsh hills
whose way of life is vanishing. And consider
that in August 1999 a Scottish shipyard with
1,200 workers was sold for two and a quarter
million pounds- the price of a large house in
Islington, spiritual home of New Labour.
Though this is an unflinching and sometimes
shocking book, it is also curiously uplifting, as
Keane reports on the courage and lack of self-
pity of those he encountered. Applying the
compassion and insight for which his foreign
reporting is widely admired, Fergal Keane has
written a compelling account of the nation
today as well as a provocative challenge to
those who promised a New Britain for the
New Millennium.
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