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Newborn
- Author
- Kerry Hudson
- Narrator
- Kerry Hudson
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 1 February 2024
- Run Time
- 8 hours 44 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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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
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I've just literally devoured Newborn and absolutely loved it
Giovanna Fletcher, Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast
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Hudson nails many parents' innermost thoughts while asking if she can really give her son a different life
Red
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An absorbing read, written in Hudson's fluent, companionable prose
Irish Times
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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
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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
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Filled with colour: food, Prague, illness, love, the challenges of having a baby in a foreign country and making your own story
AMY LIPTROT
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Details
- Author
- Kerry Hudson
- Narrator
- Kerry Hudson
- Duration
- 8 hours 44 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 February 2024
- ISBN
- 9781529901085
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Memoirs, Relationships and families: advice, topics and issues, Parenting, parenthood: advice, topics and issues
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.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
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