[StevenWaling]

Personally, I think Jeanette has as much right as any other victim of child abuse (that's basically what the "exorcisms" were) and homophobia to say what she likes about the town where she had to live through those experiences. As a victim of bullying at that baleful hellhole, Accrington Grammar School, I entirely sympathise.

And yet despite all that, she is still one of the best British novelists currently writing.