Thank you, Prime Minister. That answers the question.
It does not.
A general election. Five party leaders. One moderator who has spent thirty years saying nothing she means on air.
The Margin Notes
Eleanor Marsh asks the questions. In the margins of her notes, in a small italic hand, she writes the answers nobody gives.
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A short story from the year before the debates. A letter from a family in Sheffield lands on Eleanor Marsh's desk, and she takes it into an interview with the housing minister.
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Nathan Hesketh
Nathan Hesketh writes fiction about power, performance and the gap between what people say and what they mean. The Margin Notes is his first novel.
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