Newborn
Running Away, Breaking with the Past, Building a New Family
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Publishing:6th Feb '25
£10.99
This title is due to be published on 6th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£18.99(9781784744991)
‘I've just literally devoured Newborn and absolutely loved it’ Giovanna Fletcher, Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast
The new memoir from Kerry Hudson about her struggle to build a safe, loving home for her baby – the very opposite of the home she grew up in...
‘Absorbing’ Irish Times
‘Filled with colour’ Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun
‘A rallying cry’ Herald
How do you build a family without a blueprint to work from?
Kerry Hudson grew up in poverty. Always on the move, shuttled between the care system and her chaotic mother, she left school at 15 without qualifications. Now a prize-winning writer, she looks back and asks: how do you create a different life for yourself and your family?
In Newborn 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.
PRAISE FOR KERRY HUDSON:
‘It’s not just Kerry Hudson’s writing that is vibrant, authentic and true, it’s the person herself, it’s where the writing comes from; a wise and generous heart’ KIT DE WAAL
'Hudson’s resilience, grace and humility are staggering. She’s an absolute inspiration’ DOUGLAS STUART
‘Kerry Hudson blew me away, opened my eyes’ PHILIPPA PERRY
I've just literally devoured Newborn and absolutely loved it * Giovanna Fletcher, Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast *
Hudson nails many parents' innermost thoughts while asking if she can really give her son a different life * Red *
An absorbing read, written in Hudson's fluent, companionable prose -- Jessica Traynor * Irish Times *
Her memoirs are a rallying cry to those still stuck in the quagmire not to let society’s low expectations become a self-fulfilling prophecy * Herald *
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
ISBN: 9781529931471
Dimensions: 199mm x 130mm x 18mm
Weight: 194g
272 pages