Lowborn: growing up, getting away and returning to Britain's poorest towns

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** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK **'Kerry Hudson invites us to really understand the complexities of being born working class in Britain. Buy it, read it, tell everyone about it' Jack Monroe 'One of the most important books of the year' Guardian 'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing of value to offer, that you are worth nothing to society, can you ever escape that sense of being 'lowborn' no matter how far you've come?' Kerry Hudson is proudly working class but she was never proudly poor. The poverty she grew up in was all-encompassing, grinding and often dehumanising. Always on the move with her single mother, Kerry attended nine primary schools and five secondaries, living in B&Bs and council flats. She scores eight out of ten on the Adverse Childhood Experiences measure of childhood trauma. Twenty years later, Kerry's life is unrecognisable....