I Am Not Your Baby Mother: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Lots of other themes are explored, violence, murder, trauma etc but all really important and all necessary to be written about even if it's through a fictitious story. You mean to tell me that these people, myself included, were giving their last, having to accept that the pain and suffering we were currently experiencing might go on forever as we know it, and whilst it was going on forever, we were supposed to rejoice and revel in it? uk/landing-page/quercus/quercus-company-information/">The data controller is Quercus Editions Ltd. I was gobsmacked by how, all of a sudden, the things I thought were proper hurdles just didn’t seem to be blockers for me. I Am Not Your Baby Mother:…” looks like a very interesting book that I should take a look at to see the parallels between Black Americans and Black Brits.

I do really want to read some Virago books for All Virago/All August so I’d better keep reading along! Knife crime is no joke - youngsters thinking that carrying weapons around gives them some sort of reputation and status. This is a good book about the Black British experience (and also has some interesting contrasts between British Caribbean and British African families) although a lot of quite challenging detail about birth and health issues. It also does a great job of talking about knife crime and the effects this has not only personally but culturally too but it is down subtley and really well. Join the Women's Prize newsletter for a chance to win a stack of all 6 brilliant 2023 shortlisted books, and get the latest book news, author features and exciting competitions!

The story explores the expectations of being a black teenager in Britain and touches on the way back and white are treated differently. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

As a Nigerian migrant to the UK at a young age - a time when stories similar to this were not uncommon - I could picture most of the details in this story as I read each page. it’s defiantly a serious conversation, and i feel that everyone should read this book, it was entertaining but very moving and insightful! Cuts Both Ways is told from the perspective of those who are left behind after such tragic events and shines a light on the prejudice they are subjected to. Only for five minutes - the next 30 years you‘ll be rotting in jail where nobody could care less about you. Brathwaite takes great care to use her own story to shine a light on the wider picture and the inequality she uncovers is staggering.I could really go on about how Instagram are doing a disservice to small bloggers and creatives but I won’t. There was so much that Candice echoed in my own experiences that yet again, I just felt incredibly validated. Candice Brathwaite's much-anticipated second book about all the things she wishes she'd been told when she was young and needed guidance. Especially not when your love interests are adopted brothers from different cultures, each of whom you relate to on a different level, each of whom seems to be lying to you about different things, neither of whom you can really trust. Motherhood is a predominantly white space and it needed diversity…so a voice that would speak up for the minority that are often overlooked, judged and victims of horrific experiences within the NHS, was incredibly important.

You take your whole self to work because no limb nor pound of flesh will be considered too different, too black, too strange. Another book ticked off my 20 Books of Summer books list (intro post here) and one that Ali kindly passed to me in July last year (she read it for her book group and you can see her review here).

It is a compilation of essays about all the things Candice wishes someone had talked to her about when she was a young black girl growing up in London. Through her grandfather to her husband, she details how difficult it was for her to understand it and most importantly, accept it. Candice is a Contributing Editor to Grazia and regularly appears on radio and television news channels to talk about maternal mortality rates for black women in Britain. Candice Brathwaite is the hugely popular influencer and founder of Make Motherhood Diverse - an online initiative that aims to encourage a more accurately representative and diverse depiction of motherhood in the media. I feel like there are still questions to be answered so would love to see a sequel but I also appreciate and respect the idea that not every story has a happy ending and sometimes we are left without annswers.