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Newborn

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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...

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.


‘I've just literally devoured Newborn and absolutely loved it’ Giovanna Fletcher, Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast
‘Absorbing’ Irish Times
‘Filled with colour’ Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun
‘A rallying cry’ Herald

©2024 Kerry Hudson (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Critics Review

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
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
Author Kerry Hudson
Narrator Kerry Hudson
Duration 8 hours and 44 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781529901085
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre Memoirs, Parenting: advice and issues, Relationships and families: advice and issues
Availability AU, GB, IE

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