![]() ![]() She felt compelled to go back and to look the monster in the face. She was the one that got away – who made her way through the chaos of her childhood and found a new life.īut she is forever caught between two worlds – even as a successful writer, married, sitting at a desk with an award from the British Council that allows her to write – she sounds torn. Hudson does not pull her punches – at the opening she sets her childhood out - a series of different primary schools, time in care and later, abortion and rape. ![]() How many lives Kerry Hudson lived from childhood – she was born to a very young single mother who went from “crisis to crisis” according to the social workers' reports. You need to remind yourself that this is true, not a series of stories. Yes, it's so harrowing at times that it sounds unreal. ![]() Kerry Hudson's memoir – a book of the week – is worth the listening. ![]()
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