‘Like the best memoirs, this one is written with novelistic and poetic flair. Red Dust Road is a fantastic, probing and heart-warming read’ – “Independent”. 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. ‘A clear-eyed, witty and unsentimental account of the push and pull between nature and nurture. Happiness shines through’ – “Sunday Times”. ‘Wonderful, humane …This is a book with resolution, determination and honesty’ – “Scotland on Sunday”. ‘It is Kay’s abundant wit that makes Red Dust Road such a moving, spirited work. This is a terrifically easy, evocative, and often amusing read …A remarkable, soul-searching journey’ – “Sunday Herald”.
About the Author
Jacqueline Margaret Kay, CBE, FRSE, FRSL (born 9 November 1961), is a Scottish poet, playwright, and novelist, known for her works Other Lovers (1993), Trumpet (1998) and Dust Road (2011). Kay has won a number of awards, including the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1998 and the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year Award in 2011. From 2016 to 2021 Kay was the Makar, the poet laureate of Scotland. She was appointed as chancellor of the University of Salford in 2015.
Other Books by the Author
Bantam
Reality, Reality
FiereRed
Cherry Red
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