When not reading, writing, or studying, Zakia has occasional proper fun that might include music, clothes, dancing badly, films and art. Sometimes the fun is more than occasional. She runs a book club based in Hackney, and has had a dazzling array of haircuts and jobs. Other telling things might be her addiction to tea, problem pages, late fines, mirrors, baking, trying on ridiculous over-sized highly flammable second-hand jumpsuits, twisted romantic comedies, and experimental bleep-bleepy lo-fi
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