Kerry Hudson
Autor von Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
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‘Shall we start with a happy ending? I made it. I rose. I escaped poverty. I escaped bad food because that’s all you can afford. I escaped threadbare clothes and too-tight shoes. I escaped drinking or drugging myself into oblivion because … because. I probably escaped the early mortality rates and preventable diseases – we’ll see. I escaped obesity. I escaped the higher rate of domestic abuse. I escaped sink estates, burnt-out houses and ice-cream vans selling drugs at the school gates. I escaped Jeremy Kyle in a shiny suit telling me my sort was scum. I escaped casual, grim violence fuelled by frustration and Special Brew. I escaped benefits queues and means assessments and shitty zero-hour contracts. I escaped hopelessness.’
In Lowborn Kerry Hudson revisits her childhood, alternating the chapters of her childhood recollections with chapters where she revisits the places that she lived as a child, in an effort to see whether things had got better for the people who hadn’t been as lucky as herself.
I’ve seen a review of Lowborn which says it “invites us to understand the complexities of being born working-class in Britain”, and that is very much what it seems to try to do. Unfortunately, I’m not convinced that it’s terribly successful in this. In particular, the chapters set in 2018 where Hudson revisits the places she lived as a child frequently consist of little more than a quick visit to stare at her old home and a perfunctory conversation with whoever she happens to come across in the vicinity. And with Hudson’s individual situation being so tied up with her mother’s problems, I didn’t feel that I was left with a better understanding of the bigger picture at all. I should point out that this is a minority view, and it has been very well reviewed, but it didn’t completely work for me.… (mehr)