Author(s): Jackie Kay

Biography, Memoir & Autobiography

<b>CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS</b> <i>You think adoption is a story which has an end. But the point about it is that it has no end. It keeps changing its ending.</i> 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 <i>Red Dust Road</i> is one of unexpected twists, turns and deep emotions. In a book remarkable for its warmth and candour, Kay 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. Taking the reader from Glasgow to Lagos and beyond, <i>Red Dust Road</i> is a heart-stopping story of parents and siblings, friends and strangers, belonging and beliefs, biology and destiny. ‘Like the best memoirs, this one is written with novelistic and poetic flair. <i>Red Dust Road </i>is a fantastic, probing and heart-warming read’ – <i>Independent</i> <b>Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern </b><b>literature.</b>