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Respectable: The Experience of Class by Lynsey Hanley Finance The conciseIn her new book, Lynsey Hanley tells the age old story of the lonely journey from lower class to middle class, said Craig Brown in The Mail on Sunday a journey she describes as like emigrating from one side of the world to the other. Although she grew up on a Birmingham council estate (an experience she wrote about in an earlier work, Estates), Hanley wasnt classically working class. Her father, a clerk, wore a tie to work; the family ate HP Sauce,