ReadingRoom Who are the middle classes and what do they want?   The book launch for Megan Nicol Reed's novel One of Those Mothers was not the kind of quiet, low-key, scantily catered book launch that takes place in quiet, low-key, scantily catered ways every week in New Zealand publishing. For a start there were a lot of people, and also it was terribly glamorous (it was more like the launch of a new eyeliner or a BMW event), and it took up two whole floors of one of those unbearable bars in Grey Lynn, and there was decent food to eat and prosecco to drink, and you could tell that there were many, many guests who earned terrific amounts of money and lifted many, many boring weights and had a fierce love for their (usually two) children.

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