![]() ![]() ![]() To listen to the rest of the episode, as well as the whole archive of Damian Barr’s Literary Salon, subscribe and listen on iTunes or wherever else you find your favorite podcasts. The poverty she grew up in was all-encompassing, grinding and often dehumanising. But how did she get from there to here, and is her journey complete? What of the places she left? Listen to her incredible conversation with Damian Barr and her readings from Lowborn, a memoir like no other and essential for our times. Kerry Hudson is proudly working class but she was never proudly poor. Now Kerry is a rightly acclaimed novelist, activist, and columnist, and her life is unrecognizable. ![]() It is her own personal exploration of where she came from. Kerry Hudson attended nine primary schools and five secondaries living in B&B’s and council flats as she and her mum were forced to move again and again by poverty. Lowborn is Aberdeen-born Kerry Hudson’s first work of non-fiction. Suave Salonnière Damian Barr is your host. Star guests include Jojo Moyes, John Waters, Yaa Gyasi, Mary Beard, Diana Athill and Louis de Bernières-all in front of a live audience at leading glamorous locations world-wide. Damian Barr’s Literary Salon tempts the world’s best writers to read exclusively from their latest greatest works and share their own personal stories. Totally engrossing and deliciously feisty Bernardine Evaristo A powerful, personal agenda-changing exploration of poverty in todays Britain. ![]()
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