Kerry Hudson

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Kerry Hudson

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Kerry Hudson was born in Aberdeen. Growing up in a succession of council estates, B&Bs and caravan parks provided her with a keen eye for idiosyncratic behaviour, material for life, and a love of travel.

Her first novel, TONY HOGAN BOUGHT ME AN ICE-CREAM FLOAT BEFORE HE STOLE MY MA, was published by Chatto & Windus in Summer 2012. It has since been shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Southbank Sky Arts Award, Green Carnation Prize, Polari Prize, Author's Club First Book Award and Saltire First Book Award. It was the winner of the Scottish Book Awards: Best First Novel.

Kerry’s second novel, THIRST, was developed with support from the National Lottery through an Arts Council England grant and will be published July 2014. She now li
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Aye, that’ll do 2017

I started 2017 on a beach in Portugal. I had a perfect bruise imprint of a giant black dog’s teeth on the fleshy part of my upper arm. That morning a dog had leapt at me, teeth bared and bit down hard while its owner casually hit it until it released me. Thanks to my big winter coat, I didn’t lose a chunk of my arm and we caught a coach to the beach as planned. At midnight we watched fireworks ove

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“We left the nursery in silence, Ma smoking a roll-up, looking like she hadn’t slept in a week or maybe like she had slept for a whole week. When the nursery was just a grubby finger smudge behind us Ma looked down at me and said in her poshed-up telephone voice: “Will you speak to Janie about swearing? Fuckin’ busybody!”

I laughed and swung our linked hands.

“Aye, fuckin’ busybody.”

Pleas of laughter escaped us and spiraled up into the hot, blue Scottish sky. We laughed all the way home”
Kerry Hudson, Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma

“Tony smothered the life that me and Ma had built, a furry mould growing over a sweating slab of cheese.”
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“Here I was chasing my past, trying to piece things together but perhaps the real courage was in simply accepting the things that happen and learning to live with them.”
Kerry Hudson, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

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