She revisits the towns she grew up in to try to discover what being poor really means in Britain today and whether anything has changed. Lowborn is Kerry's exploration of where she came from. But she often finds herself looking over her shoulder, caught somehow between two worlds. She has a secure home, a loving partner and access to art, music, film and books. She's a prizewinning novelist who has travelled the world. Twenty years later, Kerry's life is unrecognisable. She scores eight out of ten on the Adverse Childhood Experiences measure of childhood trauma. Always on the move with her single mother, Kerry attended nine primary schools and five secondaries, living in B&Bs and council flats. The poverty she grew up in was all-encompassing, grinding and often dehumanising.

Kerry Hudson is proudly working class but she was never proudly poor.

'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing of value to offer, that you are worth nothing to society, can you ever escape that sense of being 'lowborn' no matter how far you've come?' 'Totally engrossing and deliciously feisty' Bernardine EvaristoĪ powerful, personal agenda-changing exploration of poverty in today's Britain. She also journeys into the hardest regions of her own childhood, because sometimes in order to move forwards we first have to look back.A powerful, personal, agenda-changing work of non-fiction on poverty in Britain from acclaimed novelist, activist and columnist Kerry Hudson Lowborn is Kerry's exploration of where she came from, revisiting the towns she grew up in to try to discover what being poor really means in Britain today and whether anything has changed. She's a prize-winning novelist who has travelled the world. 'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing of value to offer, that you are worth nothing to society, can you ever escape that sense of being 'lowborn' no matter how far you've come?' Kerry Hudson is proudly working class but she was never proudly poor. What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prize-winning novelist revisits her childhood and some of the country's most deprived towns. Random House presents the audiobook edition of Lowborn by Kerry Hudson.

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