Liz Jensen’s protagonist in The Rapture is my kind of heroine
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Version 0 of 1. Following on from the protests about the portrayal of disabled characters in fiction (We yearn for characters like us, Opinion, 2 June), what a pity Liz Jensen’s The Rapture has not yet been translated, like Jojo Moyes’s Me Before You, into film. Its terrific heroine is also half-paralysed and in a wheelchair, but given an emotional and sexual life, and a fierce courage which might see her survive an apocalyptic flood.Amanda CraigLondon • Much as I love France, the tendency of some municipalities to pipe muzak into the streets, so there is no way to get away from it, is something I not only deplore but cannot understand (Letters, 6 June). Don’t the inhabitants object? Surely they must. It drives me mad.Sara NeillTunbridge Wells, Kent • I have just wiped away the tears after reading the obituary of Muhammad Ali (6 June) by Frank Keating, a magnificent eulogy to surely the world’s greatest ever sportsman from the Guardian’s greatest ever sports writer (Obituary, 26 January 2013). Thank you.Pete SpencerNorthampton • I don’t suppose he will get a special supplement, so could I take a line to record how much pleasure I got from Dave Swarbrick’s music over the years. RIP (Obituary, 4 June).Michael CunninghamWolverhampton • Rigorous empirical research conducted by the Institute of Ultracrepidarians has revealed that the result of the 23 June referendum will be determined by voters who are inclined to ultracrepidarianism (Letters, 6 June).Ivor MorganLincoln • There are days when I can scarcely bear another word about Brexit, and there are days, like 2 June reading Maev Kennedy on first-century Latin messages from London, or 4 June’s editorial saluting the code-breaker, when I just think: “Love you, Guardian!”Jinty NelsonKing’s College London • Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com |