I think I was expecting something more like a night walkers journal, similar to the essays Will Self wrote some years back (not collected to my knowledge).

What Sandhu has done instead is to write about people who hold jobs that mean their lives are led mostly at night: fox hunters, avian police, sleep technicians, cleaners, nuns carrying out Night Adoration. All fascinating snippets about lives that go unseen. I enjoyed learning about them, but in the end felt he stayed outside, there weren't any really deep insightful interviews with any of those who undertook these roles. Short asides, but nothing that offered understanding about why you might choose those lives.

Read from 20 classics by people of colour, chosen by people of colour list. ( )

Wish I could have gone with him. ( )