Frankie Ho

Controversialist

FRANKIE’S FATHER is Hong Kong Chinese. His mother was born in Lagos. Educated at an East London comprehensive of which the Ofsted inspectors annually despaired, Frankie passed into Balliol College, Oxford, took a first class degree in Greats and then secured a very well-paid job in the City of London. Five years later, after leaving a hedge fund, he wrote — in three months — a novel about his experiences entitled The Up Escalator, which was long-listed for the Booker Prize and optioned by a television company. It was then that the trouble started. Item one of what turned out to be an extensive charge sheet was a review which Frankie was discovered to have written for a weekly magazine about the debut novel by a young Ghanaian writer who…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2021

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