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A Better Tomorrow
- Author
- Mina Smallman
- Narrator
- Sara Powell
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 25 July 2024
- Run Time
- 7 hours 7 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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Mina Smallman has lived through the unimaginable. On Saturday 6 June 2020, her daughters, Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, were killed in a park by a male stranger as they celebrated Bibaa's birthday.
Mina has been fighting for justice ever since - for her daughters, and for the rest of us, by challenging the toxic culture in the Metropolitan Police and calling out the wider institutional misogyny, racism and classism in Britain. Now, she tells her story for the first time. Framed by Mina's experience of losing her two daughters, Bibaa and Nicole, A Better Tomorrow reflects on the lessons in strength, forgiveness and hope that life has taught her - from her difficult childhood, to her embrace of motherhood, her time as a schoolteacher, and then as the first woman of colour to be an Archdeacon in the Church of England.
Told through grief and with compassion, humour and love, this deeply personal memoir is Mina's beacon of hope.
'I'd walk across hot coals to speak alongside Mina Smallman... An amazing woman' - Jess Phillips, MP
'Mina Smallman is as tough as she is warm' - Guardian
© Mina Smallman 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024
Critics Review
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Mina Smallman is as tough as she is warm
The Guardian
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A strong, outspoken and eloquent activist
Daily Mail
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I'd walk across hot coals to speak alongside Mina Smallman... An amazing woman
Jess Phillips, MP
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Mina Smallman is all of us, except she's stronger than most of us
Dawn Butler, MP
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Details
- Author
- Mina Smallman
- Narrator
- Sara Powell
- Duration
- 7 hours 7 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 July 2024
- ISBN
- 9781529911992
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Genre
- Memoirs, Political activism / Political engagement, Police and security services, Feminism and feminist theory
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. Mina Smallman has lived through the unimaginable. On Saturday 6 June 2020, her daughters, Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, were killed in a park by a male stranger as they celebrated Bibaa's birthday.Mina has been fighting for justice ever since - for her daughters, and for the rest of us, by challenging the toxic culture in the Metropolitan Police and calling out the wider institutional misogyny, racism and classism in Britain. Now, she tells her story for the first time. Framed by Mina's experience of losing her two daughters, Bibaa and Nicole, A Better Tomorrow reflects on the lessons in strength, forgiveness and hope that life has taught her - from her difficult childhood, to her embrace of motherhood, her time as a schoolteacher, and then as the first woman of colour to be an Archdeacon in the Church of England.Told through grief and with compassion, humour and love, this deeply personal memoir is Mina's beacon of hope.'I'd walk across hot coals to speak alongside Mina Smallman... An amazing woman' - Jess Phillips, MP'Mina Smallman is as tough as she is warm' - Guardian© Mina Smallman 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024
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