She also journeys into the hardest regions of her own childhood, because sometimes in order to move forwards we first have to look back. Lowborn is Kerry's exploration of where she came from, revisiting the towns she grew up in to try to discover what being poor really means in Britain today and whether anything has changed. But she often finds herself looking over her shoulder, caught somehow between two worlds. There's warmth and courage as well as pain and ultimately triumph here New Statesman. The chapters alternate between Hudson's raw memories and accounts of her present-day attempts to confront them. She has a secure home, a loving partner and access to art, music, film and books. Lowborn is the opposite of a misery memoir. 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 award-winning Scottish author gave an impassioned keynote speech at the CILIPS. The poverty she grew up in was all-encompassing, grinding and often dehumanising. Lowborn (CILIPS) author Kerry Hudson has told a Scottish conference that libraries saved her life. Kerry Hudson is proudly working class but she was never proudly poor. '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?' What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhood and some of the country's most deprived towns

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