Author Natasha Brown On Writing The Debut Novel Of The Summer | British Vogue

Brown, 31, is only a couple of years older than Emily Brontë was when she published that tale of wild and windy moors, but she is poised to cause similar uproar with Assembly, a scorching portrait of the British class system and its poisonous relationship with race, immigration, work and sexual politics. The book - clocking in at a slim 112 pages - was a sensation at the Frankfurt Book FairWorld's largest trade fair for books; held annually mid-October at Frankfurt Trade Fair, Germany; First three days exclusively for trade visitors; general public can attend last two., commanding a six-figure sum from British and American publishers. Bernardine Evaristo called it "astonishing"; it is already being hailed as the literary debut of the summer.