Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are

A revelatory exploration of the ways in which wealth - and the lack of it - shapes our lives, told through the stories of ten people, from award-winning data journalist and artist Mona Chalabi. Anna has a comfortable life in a beautiful house thanks to her husband - until he suddenly asks for a divorce.Kristina faces a choice between raising her child and finishing her degree; growing other people’s babies afforded her a way out.Tiffany, meanwhile, earns so little that the farm which is her greatest source of reassurance is also her greatest source of stress.Then there’s Jacob: he earns vast sums in finance, and yet he’s less concerned with what he has than with what he has to lose. Ten people, ten different incomes, all of them somehow afraid.For five years, data journalist Mona Chalabi followed their lives, documenting how wealth shaped their feelings, choices, identities and insecurities.Exposing our various delusions and our universal trappedness, her arresting account of what she