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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. She’s a prize-winning novelist who has travelled the world. She has a secure home, a loving partner and access to art, music, film and books..

Sous le charme, Dave, vigile dans un luxueux magasin londonien, laisse partir une jeune voleuse qu'il venait de surprendre. Sa journée terminée, il la découvre dehors, à l'attendre. C'est le début d'une relation complexe, entre deux êtres abîmés, chacun dissimulant un lourd passé. Comment Alena, venue avec tant de projets de sa Russie natale, se retrouve-t-elle à la rue et sans papiers ? Pourquoi Dave vit-il comme en exil à quelques kilomètres de chez lui ?

The beginning of a relationship is usually all about getting to know each other. Not so for Dave and Alena. He's from London; she's from Siberia. They meet in a slick Bond Street department store, where she's up to no good, and it's his job to catch her. So begins an unlikely relationship between two people with pasts, with secrets. But despite everything they don't have in common, they’re still fighting for a future together.

When Janie Ryan is born, she is destined to be the latest in a long line of Aberdeen fishwives. Ahead of her lies a life filled with feckless men, filthy council flats, and bread & marge sandwiches. But Janie isn’t like the rest of them. She wants a different life. And Janie, born and bred for combat, is ready to fight for it.