Poles Apart

"You''re lucky, being a girl. You can always get au pair work. Or a job in a Polish bakery - apparently they''re springing up all over London".

Marta grits her teeth and nods. She is used to this now: the assumption that she has come to England to abandon her career and make a fortune changing nappies and cleaning floors. It couldn''t be further from the truth. 

Poles Apart tells the story of an am...