A powerful, personal agenda-changing exploration of poverty in today's
Britain. '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. The poverty she grew up in was all-encompassing, grinding and
often dehumanising.
Always on the move with her single mother,
Kerry attended nine primary schools and five secondaries, living in
B&Bs and council flats. She scores eight out of ten on the Adverse
Childhood Experiences measure of childhood trauma. Twenty years later,
Kerry's life is unrecognisable.
She's a prizewinning novelist
who has travelled the world. She has a secure home, a loving partner and
access to art, music, film and books. But she often finds herself
looking over her shoulder, caught somehow between two worlds.
Lowborn : Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain's Poorest Towns - Kerry Hudson
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