Diana Evans: 'The Tory rhetoric asks us to forget, I'm trying to make sure that we don't'

Five years on from her acclaimed novel Ordinary People, the writer returns to explore the lives of black British Londoners. She talks about Grenfell, belonging - and how she writes to bear witness In 2019, Diana Evans's third novel Ordinary People met with a rapturous critical response, was shortlisted for the Women's prize, and earned comparisons to Tolstoy from the New Yorker, due to her gift for intertwining "the public and the private, the momentous and the mundane". Since her debut, 26A, wa...