The number one Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Indie Book Awards for Non-Fiction. A memoir with a message – specially abridged for Quick Reads 2022
The number one Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Indie Book Awards for Non-Fiction. A memoir with a message – specially abridged for Quick Reads 2022
SPECIALLY ABRIDGED FOR QUICK READS
How does a government steal a child and then imprison him? How does it keep it a secret? This story is how. This story is true.
My Name Is Why is a true story about growing up in care and fighting to succeed despite the cruelty and failures of the care system.
Lemn Sissay is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. He has written collections of poetry and plays. He received an MBE in 2010 and an OBE in 2021 for services to literature and charity. He is Chancellor of the University of Manchester. He is British and Ethiopian.
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The great triumph of this work comes from its author's determination to rail against what he rightly diagnoses as this institutionally endorsed disremembering of black and marginalised experience. It is a searing and unforgettable re-creation of the most brutal of beginnings
