She revisits the towns she grew up in to try to discover what being poor really means in Britain today and whether anything has changed. Suave Salonnière Damian Barr is your host. Lowborn is Kerry's exploration of where she came from. But she often finds herself looking over her shoulder, caught somehow between two worlds. She has a secure home, a loving partner and access to art, music, film and books. She's a prizewinning novelist who has travelled the world. Twenty years later, Kerry's life is unrecognisable. She scores eight out of ten on the Adverse Childhood Experiences measure of childhood trauma. Always on the move with her single mother, Kerry attended nine primary schools and five secondaries, living in B&Bs and council flats. The poverty she grew up in was all-encompassing, grinding and often dehumanising. She did so even though the idea scared her. Kerry Hudson is proudly working class but she was never proudly poor. Kerry Hudson was asked to write her memoir, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain's Poorest Towns, by her publisher. 'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing of value to offer, that you are worth nothing to society, can you ever escape that sense of being 'lowborn' no matter how far you've come?' 'Totally engrossing and deliciously feisty' Bernardine EvaristoĪ powerful, personal agenda-changing exploration of poverty in today's Britain.
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