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The Guardian - Life & Style • Jan. 28, 2026, 12:15 p.m.
A moment that changed me: I went on holiday – and for the first time I felt I stood out
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Leicester, where I grew up, was a ‘super diverse’ city. But when I went on a short trip with a friend, it gave me a glimpse of another world When I was 24, I visited Ireland for the first time.
It was the autumn after I graduated from university, and a friend who had won an award for her dissertation used her prize money to rent a beach hut on Valentia Island, so that we could spend a week working on our novels. The stone hut stood very close to the water’s edge on the western tip of Ireland, overlooking the expansive metal-blue of the Atlantic.
The island possessed a rugged kind of beauty – cliff edges, a lush rainforest, cold frothing water. It astounded us.
It was the autumn after I graduated from university, and a friend who had won an award for her dissertation used her prize money to rent a beach hut on Valentia Island, so that we could spend a week working on our novels. The stone hut stood very close to the water’s edge on the western tip of Ireland, overlooking the expansive metal-blue of the Atlantic.
The island possessed a rugged kind of beauty – cliff edges, a lush rainforest, cold frothing water. It astounded us.
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