Learned Behaviours by Zeynab Gamieldien review – murder mystery probes privilege and class politics

‘Gamieldien has done an excellent job of interrogating privilege without being sententious or didactic.’ Composite: Ultimo Press

Interrogating your privilege can be a divisive, somewhat uncomfortable endeavour – but the way it underpins everyday lives makes for great fiction.

It’s a topic that has been explored via familial relationships in Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half, through the employer-employee dynamic in Kiley Reid’s Such a Fun Age, and in a schoolgirl narrative in Alice Pung’s teen novel Laurinda.