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B0BGJKM6ST MP3@64 Kbps Faiza Shaheen / Narrated by Faiza Shaheen Dr Faiza Shaheen is a self-confessed stats geek and social mobility success story: from a working class background, she got into Oxford and is now a leading statistician, CEO of CLASS thinktank, and a visiting professor at NYU. But when her mother died after her benefits were cut by austerity measures, she decided to embark on a career in politics. When she lost in the 2019 election to incumbent Iain Duncan Smith, Shaheen decided to reframe her story, and set her own narrative against the statistics she researches. The result is Know Your Place: how society sets us up to failpart memoir, part polemic, this is a personal and statistical look at how society is built, the people it leaves behind, and what we can do about it. For listeners of Invisible Women and Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, this is a compelling and insightful book which will change the way we think about opportunity in Britain.