Rumaan Alam's recent novel, Entitlement, offers insights into the effects of money and power on the professionals who work in establishment philanthropy.
Alam's novel has empathy for members of this class, as represented by Brooke Orr, even as it is also sharply critical of them.
Alam gently and incrementally, though speedily at the end, brings the reader along with Brooke as she moves along this spectrum from internally fretful to entitled.
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A Gilesgate-based shop and community facility, Hexham’s Core Music, launches a separate workshop where up to six people will be trained how to repair guitars and make ukuleles. The European Social Fund grant supported the project and has secured funds through the County Durham Communication Foundation to equip the workshop in Burn Lane.