I Woke Up British: Brexit, Belonging and the European Family I Lost (en Inglés)
Reseña del libro "I Woke Up British: Brexit, Belonging and the European Family I Lost (en Inglés)"
What happens when the country you love chooses a future you cannot recognise? On 24 June 2016, Andy Waldron told his seventeen-year-old son Will that Britain had voted to leave the European Union. At home in Leamington Spa, Will thought his father was joking. Then came anger. He had imagined studying abroad. Suddenly, the future he had taken for granted seemed far less certain. For Andy, the result felt like losing a family. I Woke Up British is a candid account of Brexit through the eyes of a Scottish father raising two sons in England. It follows friendships damaged by political division, prejudice finding a newly confident voice, and the unsettling experience of feeling like an outsider in places that should feel like home. Combining personal recollection with researched political history, Waldron examines the promises made during the referendum campaign and the consequences that followed. He explores Scotland’s decision to remain, the dilemmas facing Ireland, and the practical meaning of changing rights to study, work, travel and trade. The account also looks across the Channel, considering Britain’s departure from the perspectives of France, Germany, Spain and Italy. Its closing chapters confront the debate over returning to the EU and explain the negotiations, decisions and compromises that membership would require. Written from a firmly pro-European perspective, this is a personal reckoning with sovereignty, identity and belonging. It asks what Britain gained, what it surrendered, and what kind of country we want our children to inherit.