I consider it a piece of outrageous good fortune that I come from a loving family and was provided with a stable home life during my childhood, because although I recognised a lot of what she described about the communities she lived in, her own terrible experiences were completely alien to me due to the shelter I had from strong family bonds. When I reached the end of Hudson’s book, I realised that I had read it practically holding my breath the entire time. In fact they still do, and after a number of years away at university and living and working in Edinburgh, Leeds and London, I moved back to North Lanarkshire myself and settled close to the village I grew up in to be near my parents, who support me and my husband in looking after our children. I know these places well, as I also grew up in North Lanarkshire and have relatives who lived in these towns. Two of the towns that Hudson lived in are Airdrie and Coatbridge, in North Lanarkshire. It is a searing portrait of what it is like to have known true poverty, and what that does to a person. Lowborn is a memoir about Hudson’s chaotic and nomadic childhood in impoverished towns across the UK. I recently read a book called Lowborn, by Kerry Hudson.
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