Women have collaborated with, even driven, this narrative.
Tom Madders, head of campaigns at the National Autistic Society, told the newspaper: "The Department for Work and Pensions is certainly guilty of helping to drive this media narrative around benefits, portraying those who received benefits as workshy scroungers or abusing a system that's really easy to cheat".
Still, for all that this helps drive the narrative, it ultimately brings us back to Devin, to the novel's human heart.
In her research, she interviewed over 150 experts musicians, writers, publicists, managers, Har Mar Superstar and deftly uses their fond reminiscing to drive the narrative that this time between 2001 and 2011 was, as journalist Conor McNicholas described it in the book's carefully selected opening line, a "golden age".
As he did in his huge, sprawling 1984 epic, "The Engineer of Human Souls" (a novel that aspired to address the themes of "Life, Women, Fate, Dreams, the Working Class, Secret Agents, Love and Death" in seven chapters linked to seven writers), Mr. Skvorecky uses this dichotomy to drive the narrative of "Two Murders in My Double Life".
In a new drive to change this narrative around the world, the UN Secretary General, Mr Ban Ki-moon has established the first high-level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment, which will take the lead in developing strategies and plans for closing economic gender gaps around the world.
Let this be an opportunity to drive the narrative and economy for a renewable future.
He is on safer territory with the orchestra, and so leaves them to drive the narrative.
