{"product_id":"red-dust-road-p-b-z90","title":"Jackie Kay: Red Dust Road [2011] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e`Like the best memoirs, this one is written with novelistic and poetic flair. \u003ci\u003eRed Dust Road\u003c\/i\u003e is a fantastic, probing and heart-warming read' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eRed Dust Road\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e `A clear-eyed, witty and unsentimental account of the push and pull between nature and nurture. Happiness shines through' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e `Wonderful, humane . . . This is a book with resolution, determination and honesty' \u003ci\u003eScotland on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e `It is Kay's abundant wit that makes \u003ci\u003eRed Dust Road\u003c\/i\u003e such a moving, spirited work. This is a terrifically easy, evocative, and often amusing read . . . A remarkable, soul-searching journey' \u003ci\u003eSunday Herald \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kay, Jackie","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42457256460473,"sku":"9780330451062","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/kay-jackie-jackie-kay-red-dust-road-2011-paperback-9780330451062-58729419309395.jpg?v=1727224868","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/red-dust-road-p-b-z90","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}