High and Low by Amanda Craig modern fiction A BBC Arts & The

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An Admirable Point recuperates the exclamation mark from its much maligned place at the bottom of the punctuation hierarchy

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High and Low by Amanda Craig modern fiction A BBC Arts & TheIn the worst day of the year, and on the twelfth day of Christmas, a group of people come under siege in Cross St, North London. A gang is hunting for a child who has been drawn into crime with tragic results; there is a riot outside the church where asylum seekers have been sleeping, and many cities have descended into fierce protests. Inside the Literary Cafe, a group of writers, bakers and shopkeepers are sheltering. Their petty feuds and past