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Kerry Hudson is an award-winning novelist, who also writes for Grazia, Guardian Review, Observer New Review and the Metro newspaper.
It's a privilege to welcome Kerry to our festival to speak about her latest book, Lowborn, which was published earlier in 2019. Lauded by The Guardian as 'one of the most important books of the year', Lowborn is a beautifully told work of non-fiction: a moving exploration of 'growing up, getting away and returning to Britain's poorest towns'.
Kerry is proudly working class but she was never proudly poor. The poverty she grew up in was all-encompassing, grinding and often dehumanising. Always on the move with her single mother, Kerry attended nine primary schools and five secondaries, living in B&Bs and council flats.
Lowborn is Kerry's exploration of where she came from, and also a powerful, personal agenda-changing study of poverty in today's Britain. By revisiting the towns she grew up in, Kerry tries to discover what being poor really means in Britain today and whether anything has changed.
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Rosemary Hill,
Kenilworth,
Warwickshire.
CV8 1BN
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