Are You With Me Now? by Hanif Kureishi review – a novelist unleashed

The constraints of Kureishi’s life after a devastating accident infuse his writing with a new and thrilling immediacySome months after returning home, after a grim year in hospitals in Rome and London, Hanif Kureishi begins to rebel. Not against his family, or the physical reality of being tetraplegic (and how could he?), but the liberal homogeneity of Shepherd’s Bush. He…