Description:
'An urgent manifesto for collective healing.' David Lammy MP
Brief description:
Jon Yates is Executive Director of the Youth Endowment Fund, a charitable organisation focused on supporting young people. He has co-founded a series of charities designed to bring people together, and served as a government adviser. He tweets as @jonpayates and blogs at jonyates.org.
Review Quotes:
'Yates brings together some remarkable stories to help us think about a Common Life. Offers practical and provocative ideas.' Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
'Perceptive and timely ... not only diagnoses our societal ills, but offers an easily digestible prescription. I finished this book with my optimism restored, and you will too.' Iain Dale, author of Why Can't We All Just Get Along
'Yates is the British heir to the great US sociologist Robert Putnam; his book should be our Bowling Alone, a text that everyone in politics should be reading and digesting.' James Kirkup, The Spectator
'Yates's thoroughly researched book lends the subject renewed urgency by showing how rifts in society may be undermining our health, democracy and security.' New Statesman
'Fractured marshals evidence that societal segregation is imposing significant costs. ... Mr Yates is doing his bit [to solve that] ... Intriguing ideas.'The Economist
'Deeply wise, meditative, timely and practical. The book fizzles and crackles along and in no time at all you will be at the end, reading about 32 ways to improve your, and everyone else's lives. Act on #32 and buy this book, right now.' Sir Anthony Seldon
'This is the post-pandemic manifesto we need. Vividly written, with a clear diagnosis and specific proposals for overcoming our ills, it is also a challenge to the intellectual status quo.' David Goodhart, author of Head Hand Heart
'Fractured is a very welcome source of stories, insights and practical proposals. If you want to really think about the issue of division, this is a book for you.' Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation
'A beautiful and wise book.' Remi Adekoya