A novelist bears the scars of her turbulent upbringing and indicts a nation that leaves so many in poverty
: bracing prose and an eye for symbolic detail. When her American father found out he was to become a dad, we learn that “he fell to his knees and cried, ‘What am I going to do?’”, whereupon her mother left him. His on-off replacement was a man called Richie, who had a habit of splitting up with Hudson’s mum and moving from town to town, but still managing to eventually drag the family behind him.
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