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key influences and themes
She identifies coming to Britain as one of the key influences in her work - the experience of immigration:
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"The
experience that had an impact on my writing as a woman
is coming to Britain - the shock was tremendous. I was
raised in a sort of missionary home where we had ideal
young graduate English mistresses who came all the way
from England to teach us - so the idea they gave us about
England was quite different. So when I came through Liverpool,
we came on a boat and it was a day like this, it was wet,
but there was snow, it was in March, and I was so disappointed
right from the word go. I can't put it into words what
I was actually expecting but it wasn't what I got. And
I'm still recovering almost 40 years on "
Buchi
Emecheta
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