Q _ Why did you write this book?
_ I was living in London and had written a lot of Brexit stories and decided to do a story about the actual manifestations of Brexit. Once the deal came into being and there were trade barriers, I started to call around to importers throughout the U.K. and heard lots of now familiar stories of horrendous barriers, but also I heard that shipping was in crisis and this I didn’t understand through the lens of Brexit. Why was it that suddenly the cost of moving electronics or components for pharmaceuticals multiplied literally tenfold from Asia to Ireland to Northern Ireland in the space of less than a year? As I started to dig into that, I realized this was actually a different story, and that the chaos of the
