She's actually a very bad writer.

"Guilt, shame, and complex psychological and ideological defences devised to avert these, plague the mansion-dweller who lives a couple hundred metres from the shack-dweller."

This is known as a run-on sentence. She uses a common where she should be using a period. It's two sentences - not one. And it reads badly.

I found her difficult to read because she structures her setnences badly.