Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns Audiobook (Free)

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Lowborn by Kerry Hudson.

What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her child years and some from the country’s most deprived towns

‘When every day of your life you have been told you possess nothing of worth to offer, that you are worth nothing at all to society, is it possible to ever escape that sense to be ‘lowborn’ no matter what lengths you’ve arrive?’

Kerry Hudson is proudly working class but she was never proudly poor..READING MORE about Lowborn: Developing Up, Getting Aside and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns The poverty she grew up in was all-encompassing, milling and often dehumanising. Always on the road with her one mother, Kerry attended nine primary academic institutions and five secondaries, living in B&Bs and council flats. She ratings eight out of ten for the Undesirable Childhood Experiences way of measuring childhood trauma.

Twenty years later on, Kerry’s life is unrecognisable. She’s a prizewinning novelist who has travelled the globe. She’s a secure home, a caring partner and access to art, music, film and books. But she often finds herself looking over her shoulder, captured somehow between two worlds.

Lowborn is usually Kerry’s exploration of where she came from, revisiting the cities she grew up in to try to uncover what being poor really means in Britain today and whether anything has changed. She also journeys in to the hardest parts of her own childhood, because occasionally in order to move forwards we initial have to look back.