How is the city of London important in the memoir, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up?

The city of London serves as the location for the vast majority of the autobiographical experiences Evaristo describes in her memoir. Its neighborhoods also carry significance in her analysis of sociopolitical circumstances. She refers to the area she grew up in as “White Woolwich” (120) to note how she felt out of place there as a Black girl, and to distinguish it from the experiences of her friends Paulette and Patricia — from Clapham and Hackney respectively — who grew up more immersed in Black culture. Evaristo also notes that the neighborhoods where she lived in London provided backdrops for much of her fiction, but that some of these areas would no longer be affordable for an aspiring writer.