Kerry Hudson was born in Aberdeen. Her first novel, Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma, won the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust First Book Award and was shortlisted for an array of prizes including the Guardian First Book Award and the Sky Arts Award. Thirst, her second novel, won the prestigious Prix Femina etranger. Lowborn, her highly acclaimed first work of non-fiction, was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, a Guardian and Spectator Book of the Year and Stylist Book of the Decade. It is followed by Newborn. She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020.
Hudson nails many parents' innermost thoughts while asking if she can really give her son a different life * Red * An absorbing read, written in Hudson's fluent, companionable prose -- Jessica Traynor * Irish Times * Her memoirs are a rallying cry to those still stuck in the quagmire not to let society’s low expectations become a self-fulfilling prophecy * Herald * It was always going to be difficult to follow Lowborn, but Kerry Hudson is Kerry Hudson and she has done it -- cleverly, honestly, brilliantly -- RODDY DOYLE Filled with colour: food, Prague, illness, love, the challenges of having a baby in a foreign country and making your own story -- AMY LIPTROT