NEWBORN

It was always going to be difficult to follow Lowborn but Kerry Hudson is Kerry Hudson and she has done it cleverly honestly brilliantly RODDY DOYLE Filled with colour food Prague illness love the challenges of having a baby in a foreign country and making your own story AMY LIPTROT In Newborn prizewinning writer Kerry Hudson navigates trying to build a nourishing safe and loving family without a blueprint to work from Kerry Hudson is celebrated for her emotionally and politically powerful writing about growing up in poverty Her books and journalism have changed the conversation and touched countless lives In this new book she asks what next after a childhood like hers What hope is there of creating a different life for herself let alone future generations We see how Kerry found love what it took to decide to start a family of her own and how fragile every step of the journey towards parenthood was All along the way she faces obstacles that would test the strongest foundations from struggles with fertility to being locked down in a Prague maternity hospital to a marriage in crisis But over and over again her love hope fight and determination to break patterns and give her son a different life win through and light her path Newbo