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Clair Wills photographed in
London. “What is really sad is
that the people who had the
highest hopes about life here
were often those who
encountered the worst
discrimination,” she says
Photography by Helen Atkinson
INTERVIEW / CLAIR WILLS
“I wanted to get underneath, to the
everyday stories of life as an immigrant”
HELEN ATKINSON Clair Wills talks to Ellie Cawthorne about her new book documenting the experiences
of immigrants who arrived in postwar Britain seeking a better life
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