Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
By: Kerry Hudson
4.15
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhoo…
Want to Read $ 15.99"I was a private investigator, digging my way through my own deeply buried secrets, both desperate for answers and fighting to keep them hidden."-Kerry Hudson, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
"Here I was chasing my past, trying to piece things together but perhaps the real courage was in simply accepting the things that happen and learning to live with them."-Kerry Hudson, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
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4. River East, River West
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Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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By: Fern Brady
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Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
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"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
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6. You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here
By: Benji Waterhouse
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Format: None pages, Paperback
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7. Berserker!
By: Adrian Edmondson
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Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition
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By: Peter Ross
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Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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10. Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
By: Kerry Hudson
4.15
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
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"I was a private investigator, digging my way through my own deeply buried secrets, both desperate for answers and fighting to keep them hidden."-Kerry Hudson, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
"Here I was chasing my past, trying to piece things together but perhaps the real courage was in simply accepting the things that happen and learning to live with them."-Kerry Hudson, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
11. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
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Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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12. Skint Estate: A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival
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4.14
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
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4.18
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
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19. Knee Deep in Life: Wife, Mother, Realist… and why we’re already enough
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20. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country
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