A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation featuring David
Lammy, Lenny Henry, Corinne Bailey Rae, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Hannah
Lowe, Jamz Supernova, Natasha Gordon and Rikki Beadle-Blair. For the
pioneers of the Windrush generation, Britain was 'the Mother Country'.
They made the long journey across the sea, expecting to find a place
where they would be be welcomed with open arms; a land in which you were
free to build a new life, eight thousand miles away from home.
This remarkable book explores the reality of their experiences, and
those of their children and grandchildren, through 22 unique real-life
stories spanning more than 70 years. "The story of Windrush, is, like
any other, a story of humanity. Of life, love, struggle, hope, misery,
success and failure.
It's one that is too often neglected in our
media ... but this volume acts as a remedy to that failure of
story-telling, which I ask you to both savour and share." - David Lammy
MPContributors include: Catherine Ross, Corinne Bailey-Rae, David Lammy,
Gail Lewis, Hannah Lowe, Howard Gardner, Jamz Supernova, Kay Montano,
Kemi Alemoru, Kimberley McIntosh, Lazare Sylvestre, Lenny Henry, Maria
del Pilar Kaladeen, Myrna Simpson, Naomi Oppenheim, Natasha Gordon,
Nellie Brown, Paul Reid, Riaz Phillips, Rikki Beadle-Blair, Sharmaine
Lovegrove, Sharon Frazer-Carroll.
- Hardback
- 320 pages
Mother Country : Real Stories of the Windrush Children - Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
- Product Code:New
- Availability:In Stock
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£19.99