Lowborn

I loved Lowborn… A powerful exploration of Hudson’s working-class childhood and its legacy – David Nicholls, author of One DayTotally engrossing and deliciously feisty…It really brings home how under-represented working-class lives and impoverished childhoods have been in our literary culture * Bernadine Evaristo *Hudson’s resilience, grace and humility is staggering. She’s an absolute inspiration – Douglas Stewart * Herald *Absolutely beautiful – Stanley TucciKerry Hudson blew me away, opened my eyes – Philippa Perry, author of The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read * You’re Booked *Compelling, fascinating and well-written, undeniably grim but peppered with humour and tenderness…Hudson demonstrates that only by lifting whole communities out of poverty…can we hope to avoid consigning children and young people like her - vulnerable and blameless - to the worst of lives – Kit de Waal * Daily Telegraph *Lowborn is in part an indictment of a country that claims to still have a functioning welfare state… Most of all, it is a moving portrait of the survival and eventual flourishing of a remarkable spirit – John Harris * Guardian *I’ve been in thrall to the words of Kerry Hudson since reading the very first sentence of her spectacularly good debut novel. I’m so glad she is writing Lowborn. It’s an important book that needs to exist and she is exactly the right person to write it. The hideous divisiveness that the horror that is Brexit has both revealed and fuelled, only makes this book more necessary – Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of THE LAST ACT OF LOVEElegant, compassionate and powerful… tells the hidden story of what it means to be poor in Britain today – Charlotte Heathcote * Sunday Express *Lowborn is an insider’s view of the complexities of modern-day poverty, written with humour and compassion, but without judgement. It should be required reading for anyone who unknowingly believes poverty is a personal choice and that if you work hard enough you’ll avoid its fate… a fearless writer, an inspiring woman – Jackie Annesley * Sunday Times *

Kerry Hudson was born in Aberdeen. Her first novel, Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma, won the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust First Book Award and was shortlisted for an array of prizes including the Guardian First Book Award and the Sky Arts Award. Thirst, her second novel, won the prestigious Prix Femina etranger. Lowborn, her highly acclaimed first work of non-fiction, was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, a Guardian and Spectator Book of the Year and Stylist Book of the Decade. It is followed by Newborn. She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020.

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