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Red Dust Road is a fantastic, probing and heart-warming read’ – Independent Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature. Red Dust Road is the autobiographical journey of Scottish poet, novelist, playwright and short-story writer Jackie Kay. Smith to chat about Red Dust Road and the. ‘Like the best memoirs, this one is written with novelistic and poetic flair. 'We've each got a soundtrack to our lives.' We caught up with Jackie Kay and Elaine C.

In a book remarkable for its warmth and candour, Kay 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. Lea reseñas de productos sinceras e imparciales de nuestros usuarios. 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. Vea reseñas y calificaciones de reseñas que otros clientes han escrito de Red Dust Road en. But the point about it is that it has no end.

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