PositiveThe Hindu (IND)In extending many of her pieces into a book (previously profiling Safar for Vice and Bahria Town for The Guardian, amongst others), [Shackle] has excluded a few of her finest country pieces, on the strategic port of Gwadar, the revival of Pakistani cinema, and western travel influencers. A gifted writer who has traversed the country from 2012 to 2019, a compilation of her work would seem to be more fitting ... offers a rare perspective on the lives of others, many of whom whose dreams are as unfortunately far-ranging as their neighbourhood borders. Yet interestingly enough, they share an invisible barrier with the mixed-race, globe-trotting, Oxford-educated Shackle — setting their gaze beyond their immediate buildings, and into the horizon.
