Newborn: Running Away, Breaking with the Past, Building a New Family – Kerry Hudson

Newborn: Running Away, Breaking with the Past, Building a New Family – Kerry Hudson - In conversation with Kerry Hudson

Award winning writer Kerry Hudson navigates trying to build a nourishing, safe and loving family – without a blueprint to work from.  She asks what next, after a childhood like hers?  What hope is there of creating a different life for herself, let alone future generations?  Kerry describes how she 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.  But her love, hope, fight and her determination to break patterns and give her son a different life win through and light her path.

Newborn is an empowering memoir about creating a family in the midst of chaos and learning new ways to find happiness.  It continues the journey Kerry started in her acclaimed, bestselling memoir Lowborn, illuminating her experiences of becoming a mother, reshaping her future and reclaiming her identity.

Kerry Hudson’s first novel Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma won the Scottish First Book Award. Her second novel Thirst won France’s most prestigious award for foreign fiction – the Prix Femina Étranger.  Her first memoir Lowborn was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, a Guardian and Independent Book of the Year. She is Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and writes widely for press including the New York Times, Guardian and Observer New Review

‘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

‘Kerry Hudson blew me away, opened my eyes’ Philippa Perry

Auriel Majumdar is a Creative Coach, Supervisor, Consultant and Educator