A revealing, honest and often comic coming-of-age story about growing up in 1970s Britain on the boundaries of race
'Full of charm' GUARDIAN
'An account of what being British means' i
'Captures a country in transition ... You can't fail to be moved' THE TIMES
Kamal Ahmed's childhood was very 'British' in every way - except for the fact that he was brown. Half English, half Sudanese, he was raised at a time when being mixed-race meant being told to go home, even when you were born just down the road.
This is his account of an upbringing of cricket and bucket-and-spade holidays, Angel Delight and the BBC - British to the core, yet always feeling foreign in the only home he had ever known.
'Ahmed grew up as a mixed-race kid in west London in the seventies, and his book charts the progress (sometimes slow and now without a few setbacks along the way) that our country has made on race issues since then. Brilliant' Rohan Silva, Evening Standard
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- Year Published:
- 2019
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9781408889244
- Number of Pages:
- 352
- Publication Date:
- 02/05/2019
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Authors:
- Ahmed, Kamal
- Illustrations Note:
- Integrated B&W photographs
- Place of Publication:
- London
- SKU:
- 9781408889244