6/12/2023 0 Comments Lowborn kerry hudsonIn Lowborn she travels back to see how the communities she grew up in are doing today. A world filled with people who wouldn't know what it's like to grow up with 'threadbare clothes and too-tight shoes' or 'bad food because that’s all you can afford'. Now an award-winning author, she is happily married and 'passes' in the new world of writers’ conferences and festivals she now orbits. 'I escaped poverty,' she explains in the book. Like, for example, being warned by her stepfather to avoid the back of a sofa because there 'might' be used needles down there.ĭespite her circumstances, however, she got out. From Canterbury to Great Yarmouth, she was dragged to each new town, and into a series of precarious new environments. Born in Aberdeen in 1980, Hudson spent her early years being shipped between B&Bs and council flats. Originally a column in the (now defunct) online women’s magazine The Pool, its pages are filled with chaos and dysfunction.Īs if to prepare us, she summarises her origins from the get-go: 1 single mother 2 stays in foster care 9 primary schools 1 sexual abuse child protection inquiry 5 high schools 2 sexual assaults 1 rape 2 abortions My 18th birthday. Kerry Hudson’s memoir, Lowborn, isn't exactly an easy read.
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