“Without Warning & Only Sometimes” by Kit De Waal is a brilliant book concerning the bonds and multiple small heartbreaks of family life. By using her parents, she highlights the struggles faced by multiple groups and multi-ethnic families in the UK. This hardship is something we should read as old-fashioned, as something that is in our past. Today, it would still appear that, with the rise of food banks, and racial and sexual violence, the UK still cannot remove itself from its colonial past that is obsessed with class.