![]() ![]() This is not a book for the sensitive or easily offended but, given that this is a real-life account rather than fiction the content at least doesn’t feel gratuitous. ![]() There is strong language as well as descriptions of attempted sexual assaults and the aftermath of a rape. ![]() Stable childhoods score less than four on the Adverse Childhood Experiences questionnaire, this author’s scored eight. On top of this, Kerry suffered ongoing abuse by neglect, her mother both leaning on her like an adult and leaving her alone to run wild.įrom the outset this is a book which pulls no punches. Her sense of not belonging was compounded by her mother’s perennially negative outlook: social workers were do-gooders charity was refused friends kept at a distance. When Kerry Hudson was a child, she was that kid, the one other parents didn’t want their children playing with, “I was clearly, visibly, the worst thing you could be – I was poor.” When Lowborn opens, Kerry is now living the middle-class life of a successful author and having brushed her past under the carpet she still, after all this time, feels like she doesn’t truly belong anywhere.īrought up by an emotionally unstable single mother with a drink problem, Kerry was dragged across Scotland and England, from dead end town to rundown estate, from school to school, for endless new beginnings that never delivered. Rosalie Faithfull reflects on Kerry Hudson’s memoir. ![]() Books & Media, Jesus & Justice in the UK, People & Places ![]()
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