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Working is good for you — even if it’s unpaid, in a charity shop — or writing book reviews for The Spectator

You don’t want to end up like those sour-faced children of the idle rich who invariably go to the bad, says Julie Burchill, reviewing All Day Long, by Joanna Biggs

25 April 2015

9:00 AM

25 April 2015

9:00 AM

All Day Long: A Portrait of Britain at Work Joanna Biggs

Serpent’s Tail, pp.320, £14.99, ISBN: 9781781251874

Work is a funny old thing — a four-letter word to some, the meaning of life to others. There have been occasions during the past three years, since I was given the heave-ho from my last regular newspaper column, when I’ve felt that I didn’t exist any more, despite having a happy marriage and more than enough money.

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