There are insights into both inequality and the privileged bohemian lives of Anna and her friends. There are shocking descriptions of the racist politics of white colonialists in Africa. There are agonised accounts about the end of the communist dream, and frank commentaries on sex, male impotence and female desire. The book features hilarious pastiches about mid-20th-century literary London and bitter satires of film and television producers. It would be impossible to discuss everything in these sections in a single article. Meanwhile, the Free Women sections describe Anna in the third person, taking us outside her head in an attempt to record her scattered thoughts. Yellow contains her attempts to write (highly autobiographical) fiction, while blue is a diary of her daily life. In the red, she tracks her political development. In the black one, she reflects on her writing life. The black, red, yellow and blue notebooks of the novel are Anna’s different approaches to making sense of herself.
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