Red Dust Road
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780330451055 (0330451057)
Publish date: June 4th 2010
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 296
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Cultural,
Africa,
Book Club,
Parenting,
Family,
Biography Memoir,
Adoption,
Scotland
I knew nothing about Jackie Kay before opening this book, so it was a bit of a leap in the dark. She writes poetry, it turns out, and has obviously attracted some attention with it because she has an MBE. But this book is not about her writing, it's about how she was adopted and came to find her nat...
While I have very very little in common with Jackie Kay (we're both women and we both had questions regarding our biological fathers and that's about it), I felt wrapped up in her travels to find where she came from. It wasn't so much a quest as it was taking opportunities as they were presented. Sh...
blurb - It was the imminent birth of her son that prompted the poet and novelist Jackie Kay to try and trace the parents who had given her up for adoption in the 1960s. Her own childhood had been a profoundly happy one with open and loving parents . They had always made it clear to her that she and ...
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