A 2013 World Book Night selection.
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Biography of the Year Award 2011.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 17 March 2011.
This charmingly written autobiography - about a young girl with a Nigerian father adopted by a wonderfully humane white Scottish couple - could have been a dark, complicated to read. But it isn't. There is clarity, warmth and a twinkle in the eye. A sense of someone who is comfortable in her own skin as she comes to terms with the meaning of love and her own sexuality. Thoughtful, tender, gentle and humane, Red Dust Road is a delight to read.
I find Jackie Kay's writing compelling and so evocative. I was gripped by this memoir of her journey to find out where she came from and to forge a connection with her birth parents.
Fiona Gibson, from our Best Autobiographies Ever Blog.
From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing and finding of her birth parents, her Highland mother and Nigerian father, Jackie Kay's journey in Red Dust Road is one of unexpected twists, turns and deep emotions. In a book remarkable for its warmth and candour, she discovers that inheritance is about much more than genes: that we are shaped by songs as much as by cells, and that what triumphs, ultimately, is love.
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From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing and finding of her birth parents, her Highland mother and Nigerian father, Jackie Kay's journey in Red Dust Road is one of unexpected twists, turns and deep emotions. In a book remarkable for its warmth and candour, she discovers that inheritance is about much more than genes: that we are shaped by songs as much as by cells, and that what triumphs, ultimately, is love.
Red Dust Road features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, eBooks of the Month, Non-Fiction Books of the Month, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Recommendations
Paperback. Not Available.
Red Dust Road was written by Jackie Kay and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Red Dust Road has 320 pages
Yes it is part of Picador Classic series
