Is This Working?

Colenutt’s intense and revealing interviews capture the raw voices of people talking honestly about work, high and low, fulfilling and crushing. Read this, as each one opens a hidden window on the way we live now – Polly ToynbeeStrangely gripping … Fascinating and often moving * The Sunday Times *Utterly fascinating … By simply listening to people talk about their jobs, Colenutt has created something unique and unexpectedly moving: it’s a choral work of frustration, pride and despair * The Telegraph *

Impressive: an appealing array of fresh and informative accounts that reveal just enough ofeach interviewee’s life and personality to feel authentic, rather than generic

Charlie Colenutt studied history at the University of Oxford, where he won the Gibbs Prize. After his undergraduate studies, he stayed in Oxford as the Amelia Jackson scholar, completing a postgraduate degree on the history of the United States. He then had a brief turn as a commercial barrister, before leaving law to work as a writer. He lives on a hill near High Wycombe.