I always enjoy the week between Christmas and New Year; it gives me the chance to do all those jobs that I’ve wanted to do around the house and to wade into the pile of books and novels I collect throughout the year and never quite get chance to read. This year has been no different and in amongst all the festivities I’ve managed to make some inroads into the reading list. A case in point is the first novel by Selma Dabbagh, a British Palestinian writer, called Out of It. It makes for a very uncomfortable, although very readable experience (if that isn’t a contradiction in terms).
