Hanif Kureishi

If I'm in my kitchen and Isabella is cooking and then she does the shopping and then she has to feed me, then she has to wash up, there's nothing I can do to help her and it's shameful and embarrassing. And so the nature of our relationship was completely transformed by this accident where I am entirely dependent on other people

If I'm in my kitchen and Isabella is cooking and then she does the shopping and then she has to feed me, then she has to wash up, there's nothing I can do to help her and it's shameful and embarrassing. And so the nature of our relationship was completely transformed by this accident where I am entirely dependent on other people

If I'm in my kitchen and Isabella is cooking and then she does the shopping and then she has to feed me, then she has to wash up, there's nothing I can do to help her and it's shameful and embarrassing. And so the nature of our relationship was completely transformed by this accident where I am entirely dependent on other people

and also profoundly ashamed that I'm not able to do what I could do before, the only way to get around this is to enjoy it, you know, and to enjoy the conversations you have with other people, to enjoy their generosity, to enjoy the love that they have for you and how they like to help you and to serve you. So it's a big kind of...

and also profoundly ashamed that I'm not able to do what I could do before, the only way to get around this is to enjoy it, you know, and to enjoy the conversations you have with other people, to enjoy their generosity, to enjoy the love that they have for you and how they like to help you and to serve you. So it's a big kind of...

and also profoundly ashamed that I'm not able to do what I could do before, the only way to get around this is to enjoy it, you know, and to enjoy the conversations you have with other people, to enjoy their generosity, to enjoy the love that they have for you and how they like to help you and to serve you. So it's a big kind of...

The emotional and intellectual turnaround I'm just describing here from being an independent person with agency in the world who can do stuff to becoming this tyrannical baby that I am here now talking to you.

The emotional and intellectual turnaround I'm just describing here from being an independent person with agency in the world who can do stuff to becoming this tyrannical baby that I am here now talking to you.

The emotional and intellectual turnaround I'm just describing here from being an independent person with agency in the world who can do stuff to becoming this tyrannical baby that I am here now talking to you.

Yeah, I have one person 24-7 who lives in the house, who looks after me, and then carers who come in one in the morning to wash me and get me dressed and ready for the street. And then in the evening, someone who helps put me to bed and cleans me and gets me ready for the night.

Yeah, I have one person 24-7 who lives in the house, who looks after me, and then carers who come in one in the morning to wash me and get me dressed and ready for the street. And then in the evening, someone who helps put me to bed and cleans me and gets me ready for the night.

Yeah, I have one person 24-7 who lives in the house, who looks after me, and then carers who come in one in the morning to wash me and get me dressed and ready for the street. And then in the evening, someone who helps put me to bed and cleans me and gets me ready for the night.

I felt all those things as you have to adjust to a new life. One day I was an ordinary, normal person walking about the world doing stuff. The next day, and this may happen to many of us, to all of us, you're entirely dependent on the kindness of strangers for your life. And it's a big adjustment. And at the beginning, it's very humiliating. You feel really embarrassed.

I felt all those things as you have to adjust to a new life. One day I was an ordinary, normal person walking about the world doing stuff. The next day, and this may happen to many of us, to all of us, you're entirely dependent on the kindness of strangers for your life. And it's a big adjustment. And at the beginning, it's very humiliating. You feel really embarrassed.

I felt all those things as you have to adjust to a new life. One day I was an ordinary, normal person walking about the world doing stuff. The next day, and this may happen to many of us, to all of us, you're entirely dependent on the kindness of strangers for your life. And it's a big adjustment. And at the beginning, it's very humiliating. You feel really embarrassed.

You know, people touch you all the time. Strangers come into my house every single day and they touch me, they turn me over. They talk above me as if I'm not there. And my circumstances have entirely changed. But I have to say, you get over it.

You know, people touch you all the time. Strangers come into my house every single day and they touch me, they turn me over. They talk above me as if I'm not there. And my circumstances have entirely changed. But I have to say, you get over it.

You know, people touch you all the time. Strangers come into my house every single day and they touch me, they turn me over. They talk above me as if I'm not there. And my circumstances have entirely changed. But I have to say, you get over it.

Well, I think at the beginning there was a lot of anger, you know, from me mostly. when you have your life, as it were, your normal life, your ordinary life, snatched away from you by an illness, as I say, as will happen to so many of us, you are absolutely furious. And you become furious with the people around you. You become furious with your life.

Well, I think at the beginning there was a lot of anger, you know, from me mostly. when you have your life, as it were, your normal life, your ordinary life, snatched away from you by an illness, as I say, as will happen to so many of us, you are absolutely furious. And you become furious with the people around you. You become furious with your life.