![]() “There was no one to sack me and no one to strike me off,” he explains, and so no reason to keep his name off the book. Adam Kay, who published his medical memoir This is Going to Hurt under his own name in 2017, says he never thought to conceal his identity – because he had already left the profession. The Secret Barrister, whose anonymous exposé of the criminal justice system was published in 2018, explains from behind the barrier of email: “Anonymity means I can criticise institutions, organisations and players in the justice system without feeling that I have to modify my commentary with a nervous eye on my real-life practice.”Ĭoncern for their employment is a major reason cited by writers for going anonymous. Many anonymous authors say this is precisely why they’ve chosen to remain hidden. ![]() ![]() Here is someone who – by concealing their identity – can reveal the complete and shocking truth. This month the tally of the unknown author swells again, with the publication of Can You Hear Me?, a paramedic’s memoir published under the pseudonym Jake Jones.įor readers, the anonymous author holds a simple and compelling promise. Today, Anonymous is probably an outraged employee in a public service: a member of the legal profession blowing the whistle on the system, or a medic who has seen one too many patients expiring on a trolley. “F or most of history, Anonymous was a woman,” wrote Virginia Woolf. ![]()
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