Red Dust Road

Picador Classic

By:

Jackie Kay

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Picador Classic

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Taking the reader from Glasgow to Lagos and beyond, Red Dust Road is a heart-stopping memoir of parents and siblings, friends and strangers, belonging and beliefs, biology and destiny. With an introduction by the First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon. From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing and finding of her birth parents, her Highland mother and Nigerian father, Jackie Kay's journey in Red Dust Road is one of unexpected twists, turns and deep emotions. In a book remarkable for its warmth and candour, she discovers that inheritance is about much more than genes: that we are shaped by songs as much as by cells, and that what triumphs, ultimately, is love. 'Like the best memoirs, this one is written with novelistic and poetic flair. Red Dust Road is a fantastic, probing and heart-warming read' - Independent

Author Biography:

Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh. She is a poet, novelist and writer of short stories and has enjoyed great acclaim for her work for both adults and children. Her novel Trumpet won the Guardian Fiction Prize and is a modern classic. She has published several collections of stories with Picador, including Why Don't You Stop Talking and Wish I Was Here. She teaches at Newcastle University, and lives in Manchester.

Release date NZ

October 19th, 2017

Author

Jackie Kay

Series

Picador Classic

Pages

320

Interest Age

From 18 years

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Dimensions

130x197x21

ISBN-13

9781509858392

Product ID

26811762

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