Dreams of Leaving and Remaining

“Meek listens hard … His reportage … demonstrate[s] a sensibility and empathy that are his wont.”
—Financial Times

“Provocative and persuasive.”
—Herald Scotland

“A beautiful collection by a renowned essayist.”
—Stephen Bush, Guardian

“Meek is brilliant at focusing on a particular case to tell a bigger story.”
—Labour Briefing

“[Meek] explores the slow-moving processes behind the sudden shock of the Brexit vote by getting out and about in Britain, to look beyond London at the competing ideals that led to this culture clash – cosmopolitanism and urbane liberalism against a more traditional yearning for British sovereignty, its mythology and nostalgia.”
—Dan Hancox, National

“Clear-headed … Meek has a canny ability to provide plausiable explanations for the motivations of many Leave voters.”
—Peace News